He said Fernando Alonso at the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, in which he finished in second position, which in the 2010 and 2012 seasons was not the fastest, but he took care of being the most regular and reaching the last round of the season with the possibility of qualifying for the qualification. Something that was not finally consummated. In 2023 he maintains the same line. Maximum regularity as far as the car allows him and podium after podium he already has 93 points compared to Verstappen’s 144, leader of the World Cup. The difference seems very big, but if the Dutchman had a reliability problem or suffered some problem in the next two races (50 points to the winner), Alonso could catch up with him if everything turned out well. With the same Red Bull, Sergio Pérez barely has 12 points more than the Asturian. The first surprised by all this is Alonso himself, as well as his team, Aston Martin, who did not expect to have such a good performance in 2023.
Six races have already been held and teams like Ferrari and Mercedes have little room for improvement. It is true that the suspension of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, a conventional circuit where many teams had planned to introduce some improvements and evolutions, disrupted the plans and they had to postpone this to the next race, which is held this weekend in Barcelona. There doubts will be cleared.
For a team to win the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships, they must not only have a good car and a great driver. There are hundreds of details to polish and in all departments, because Formula One is a discipline where the differences are measured in thousandths and to advance more than the rivals a lot of development is needed.
Today, Aston Martin has a good technical director, a good driver, a good team manager, but underneath, all that glitters is not gold. Starting with the second pilot. Lance Stroll adds 27 points and Alonso, 93. Is the son of the owner of the British team a bad driver?
It may deserve to be in F-1, but after six seasons its place is a team from the middle of the table downwards, not in the elite as Aston Martin is now. He has a career average of 1.7 points per race Compared to the almost six that the Spanish driver has, who, apart from this, has shown this course that the only thing Stroll can do with him is learn. The Canadian, son of the team’s largest shareholder, is not expected to help him at some point during the season.
It is already a classic that Alonso’s teammates are always left behind, with the exception of Ocon last year and Button in the darkest stage of McLaren when they did not know how to manage the Honda power unit. In 2010, when Alonso fought for the title with Ferrari in the last race in Abu Dhabi, he led his teammate Massa by 108 points and in 2012 the difference went up to 156. With a good neighbor in the box, the rivals would still not have added so many points. In 2010, the champion was Vettel and he only led his teammate Webber by 14 points.
Ferrari is a team that has everything to win, but it lacks some details that make the machinery less than perfect. Aston Martin has everything to be, but still has many aspects to improve. It has a new factory underway in which to improve its processes and has also designed a new wind tunnel in which to test all the aerodynamic innovations. That’s all very well, but it takes years to get a title. Red Bull started the same way in 2005 and it wasn’t until 2010 that it won its first title with Sebastian Vettel.
In addition, now there is an exhaustive control of the budget, which is no longer free as at that time, this also includes the hours in the wind tunnel and other aspects that limit the development of the car to try to match the performance of the teams to the maximum. It is on the right track, but in the coming years they may no longer be alone in their fight with Red Bull, since others like Mercedes or Ferrari can always arrive.
2023-06-01 08:06:07
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