Alonso’s tenth place in the Australian classificationby behind Tsunoda and his partner Lance Stroll. It has not been the classification that the Asturian driver expected y Aston Martin after the good sensations in Free Practice on Friday and also in Q1, where he was close to the times of Sainz.
But After entering Q3, things have started to go wrong. In his first attempt at a fast lap, with used soft tires, Fernando lost control of the car and went off the track in the escape at turn 6 at Albert Park. damaging the floor of his car.
Pedro de la RosaAston Martin ambassador, explained that “I have spoken with Fernando’s track engineer and he told me that they have seen in the telemetry that when he arrived at turn 6 he had a very strong gust of wind, he hit his tail. at the entrance and it has gone wide. It was incredible that who could have done 17.5because the bottom was just as damaged as that of Libres 1. It has been very damaged.”
Alonso, for his part, doubted that there was damage to the flat bottom of the ARM24 as soon as he got out of the car: “I haven’t noticed anything strange in the last lap. There were maybe tenths of some damage, but we suffered all weekend. Already in Free Practice 3 we were between eighth and tenth. We are less competitive than in Arabia, but The race is this Sunday and we have seen crazy races in F2 and F3. We will try to save the weekend with some point,” he pointed out to the DAZN microphones.
“It has been an intense time trial as always here in Australia, with a lot of wind that doesn’t make things easy. In the end I think we have done more or less well. We have to go to the limit, I can go a little slower and stay out of Q3.PLuckily there was an escape and the wall was not close, but we did have a very critical car all weekend“It hasn’t been the most comfortable grand prix,” Alonso assessed about the risks he had to take today.
The two-time Spanish champion will have a complicated Sunday, with high degradation and perhaps surprises: “There is concern with ‘graining’, we have had very high degradation in the first two races and we expect a difficult race. We haven’t gone as fast as others this weekend, but we will try to score the points that the fifth car, which is ninth and tenth, deserves. We will try to pass Tsunoda, who is the one who has sneaked in and that is what we have to do.”
“This circuit is very hard andThe race will be very long and will demand a lot from the tires. We already saw it last year: safety cars, red flags… We need to be very focused, avoid any mistakes because I haven’t done a good job today, but I will do better tomorrow to recover everything we have lost today. Let’s go there!” he has concluded.
2024-03-23 14:17:51
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