The teams finalize their cars for a championship that promises excitement. The 2023 Formula 1 course will start on March 5, in Bahrain. It will start very soon, 15 days before the 2022 season started, and in fact it will be the World Cup that starts first in more than 20 years, since the 2002 course, which started in Australia on March 3. It will be the fifth F1 season to start in Bahrain, which already had its world premiere in 2006, 2010, 2021 and 2022, and which has established itself as the opening venue for the F1 seasons. Formula 1 and the FIA had a total of 24 Grand Prix weekends scheduled for the 2023 World Cup, but restrictions due to COVID-19 in China have meant their cancellation, so 23 races will finally take place.
In addition, it will have six sprint races, twice as many as in 2021 and 2022, they will be run at the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Qatar, the United States and Brazil. But before the starting signal of the Gran Circo, the tests arrive with the spotlights on Fernando Alonso who is emerging as one of the great attractions of a season.
The Spaniard is already riding at the Circuito de Jerez with Aston Martin, a team that he will defend this season. From early in the morning, the Spaniard trains with Lance Stroll, his teammate.
Of course, the Asturian He will have to wait until February 13 to test the novelties his brand new team is working on. Alonso, despite the speculation in recent weeks, rolls in the AMR22 that Sebastian Vettel and Stroll used last season, the one that Fernando already drove in the post-season tests in Abu Dhabi. The regulations prohibit testing parts on cars that have not been used during the course, so the car that Alonso will use in Jerez will not have improvements, or at least no part that the teams have not installed at some point in 2022. But, without Undoubtedly, the test will help the driver to adapt to the way his team works.
To the disappointment of the fans, these tests are private and as such, Pirelli has confirmed that they will take place behind closed doors, without fans, press or official timing, so only data will be known. through the official channels of Aston Martin and the F1 tire supplier.
However, at the entrance to the circuit, Fernando Alonso has left a gesture that has not taken long to go viral on social networks that already see the Asturian at the top of the table. In a photo posted to Twitter by a fan, Alonso is seen making a hand gesture by sticking out three fingers. Quickly, netizens have gone crazy with all kinds of cabals.
Third World Cup?, 33rd victory?, “The thing about sticking out the 3 fingers and saying Boss on his shirt makes sense” Or “Let’s go for the 3 that this is going to be historic”, These are some of the hundreds of messages from fans who are already rubbing their hands with a season that looks exciting.
