Awarded again with the best execution of an attack on the track in the sprint classification, Fernando Alonso stayed on the edge of the Top 10 despite recognizing that they have no pace for more and that the race will be tough.
After not being able to even go to Q3 In the anomalous qualifying session held on Friday, the Alpine drivers were forced to settle for a few discreet times that the second weekend of racing gave them to sprint uphill as soon as you start.
«We lack rhythm this weekend, we already know that; that’s why yesterday we did 13th and 14th »Fernando Alonso himself confessed at the end of the 18 laps of this new format, this time on Italian soil.
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Pierre Gasly’s accident allowed them to win a position for free, an award to which Alonso added the position of Sebastian Vettel after emerging with better traction than him from the first Monza corners. «Today we have gained two positions, Bottas changes the engine, so there are already three … we take them and go to the race tomorrow thinking that it’s going to be hard to keep the position in the points. We lack those extra decimals, but let’s see what happens, “he said conformist.
“Especially today we saw that it was difficult to follow a car. In less than 2 seconds you already lose too much charge, so we are going to have to be very attentive to when the stops are, make a good start … because due to race pace it will be difficult to overtake anyone, “he continued after being forced to follow a procession of single-seaters.
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In his own words, “Today was one of the best outings”, something to which the Asturian has accustomed us, who already won the award for best maneuver in the classification at sprint of Silverstone and repeated in this fourteenth appointment of the calendar.
“We always overtake cars but it tends to be braking in the first corner, in the second … but today, however, the first 50 meters or so I saw that it came out very very well, but Monza is very narrow. In the end, when we reached the middle of the straight, the Aston Martin closed in front of me … they touched me a bit … thank goodness the spoiler stayed in place … but Monza is too narrow to gain much at the start, “explained Alonso.
Coming from Zandvoort, a really narrow circuit and more accommodated for motorcycles, # 14 recognized that the main straight at Monza ended up being narrow. «No, no, no … the start above all, and the first corner. These cars are very wide, very long too. Maneuvering in the first corner is like ‘minibuses’ that we go to the first corner. It’s hard to turn everyone there. I suppose that something of that happened to Gasly and then he left in 3, “he added.
«Tomorrow we must have four eyes at the start and again, if something happens at the start, benefit. If not, by race pace, I think the 10th is where we deserve to be. 10th-11th, we don’t deserve more“, Concluded Alonso pointing out what awaits them in the race on Sunday.