MADRID, 30 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), who finished eighteenth in the Austrian Grand Prix race, has said that points were “out of reach” this Sunday, and has assured that the team is already working to be able to return to the ‘Top 10’ in the British Grand Prix.
“I went wide, I collided with Guanyu -Zhou- and I had the penalty, and from then on my race was already forgotten. But nothing changed, instead of finishing 17th, you finished 14th. The points today were out of reach” , he said in statements to DAZN.
On the fact of having achieved the fastest lap in the race, he recalled that “there is no point or anything” for being “outside the ‘Top 10′”. “We wanted to test the car with other tyres and with little fuel. It was a difficult race, as we expected. We were going to make three stops, we stopped very early, and with Lance -Stroll- we were going to make two, to see if there was a ‘safety car’ or a moment of luck in either of the two cars,” he said.
In this sense, the Asturian said that this Sunday’s event “is a learning experience.” “We’ve had a very difficult weekend and we want to do better in Silvestone. I would say that it’s not difficult to do better than here because we’ve suffered too much, so I’m going to Silvestone with more optimism than perhaps here in Austria, but we have to prove it and we have to get back into that ‘Top 10’ and get points,” he said.
“The conclusions are very clear, or for me they are black and white of what we have done on the car, what we have installed right now, what we have to improve, what we have to maintain. Now we have to get together, go to Silverstone with high morale because it is our home Grand Prix, all of us mechanics have the factory right next to the circuit and we have to do better,” he concluded.
2024-06-30 15:28:38
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