Max Verstappen has valued the signing of Fernando Alonso by Aston Martin, ensuring that he can come to understand the Asturian driver in his commitment to the movements that the team is making to build a solid future.
Fernando Alonso has starred in the news ‘bomb’ of the summer. The Spaniard will leave the Alpine team to joining the Aston Martin team ahead of 2023. An unexpected move that has been recurring topic of conversation in the paddock of the Belgian GP and that the great protagonists of the championship have valued throughout the first two days of the event.
The leader Max Verstappen has not been an exception. Despite being in a complex weekend due to the sanction that will make him start at the back of the grid, the Red Bull driver has valued Alonso’s move. In this sense, the Dutch even understands the Asturian’s decision seeing the movements that Aston Martin has made to reinforce its project.
“I can understand Fernando going there and trying to build something on another level”
Max Verstappen He has expressed his opinion on the signing of Fernando Alonso and the ambition of Aston Martin, assuring that “it is something very exciting, I mean, the Fernando thing. Why not? I think Aston Martin is a team that wants to get to the front. They are hiring a lot of people. In that sense, I can understand that Fernando goes there and try to build something on another level.”
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Aston Martin arguments
Although Aston Martin is at the bottom of the grid, Lawrence Stroll’s team seems to have the necessary arguments not only to convince Alonso, but also for Verstappen can understand the Asturian’s ambitions without having all the data on the table. Something that happens, to a great extent, for the market movements of the British team.
The ‘pecking’ of Aston Martin for add talent to the team -and also to its organizational chart- has been constant in recent months. Without going further, Martin Whitmarsh was chosen as CEO of Aston Martin Performance Technologies, being responsible for effectively combining the activities of the brand with the Formula 1 project.
In a role much closer to Fernando Alonso himself when the Asturian forms part of this new project, Mike Krack serves as Aston Martin F1 Team Principal since January 2022. However, if there is a name that excites within the formation, it is that of Dan Follows.
The former Red Bull engineer who was signed in 2021 and should be the protagonist in the Development of the first single-seater of Fernando Alonso’s stage at Aston Martin. Dan Fallows will be very well escorted by Luca Faurabattoanother of the recent signings of the team and who holds the position of engineering director.
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