MADRID, 2 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) commented this Saturday that “in the worst weekends you have to keep adding points”, after achieving tenth position on the starting grid for the Italian Grand Prix, fifteenth round of the World Championship of Formula 1.
“It is not a very good circuit for us, with so many straight lines and few curves, and tomorrow we will have to suffer. But hey, there are better weekends and other worse ones, and in the worst ones you have to keep adding points,” Alonso said before the microphones from DAZN from the Monza National Autodrome.
“We knew it was going to be a difficult ‘time trial’, Q3 was the maximum objective we had. The estimate before the ‘time trial’ that the computer gave us was between 9 and 12, and in the end we more or less met it because tenths we are there in the middle of that estimate”, stressed the Asturian pilot.
Thus, Alonso repeated “the goal of scoring points” for the Sunday session. “I don’t know how many there are going to be, I hope they are enough. But seeing the pace we’ve had all weekend, ‘top 7’ or ‘top 8’ I think it would be the maximum we can aspire to”, he admitted in this regard. .
“And trying to help Aston in the constructors. And then in the drivers’ championship the closest rival we have is Hamilton; he starts eighth, we’re tenth, so we’re not that far behind him. Trying to cover his career and, well, a bit defend ourselves; tomorrow is a defense race”, he insisted.
Meanwhile, the man from Oviedo indicated that the application of certain improvements in his car “has gone well”. “I have felt good about the car, but here there are only six corners and 90% of the circuit is done at the top. So there is not much to do on this circuit, other than accelerating on the straights”, he lamented regarding the layout of Monza.
“So we haven’t been able to fully assess the improvements in the Netherlands, but I think it’s going well. And as I said, there are better circuits, there are worse circuits, and better and worse weekends, and this is one of the negatives. We’ve had others during the championship and we always add points, let’s see if we don’t make any mistakes tomorrow”, concluded Alonso.