MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) stated this Sunday at midnight, with evident resignation, that “doing 56 laps, just for the sake of doing them, seems long” for the long race of the United States Grand Prix, the nineteenth qualifying round for the Championship. of the Formula 1 World.
“It’s what we have to do, we will also discuss whether it is better to learn something and play the set-up or start from the pit, anything that will be useful to us this weekend. Why do 56 laps tomorrow, just for give them, they seem long. But hey, there are better weekends and worse ones; this is one of the bad ones, you have to grit your teeth and be with the team,” Alonso said from Austin (Texas) before the DAZN microphones.
“The truth is that we have been uncompetitive since FP1. In the two time trials and now in the race nothing has changed either. Very slow, too slow and without rhythm, so zero points today. And tomorrow, leaving even further behind, possibly zero points too,” predicted the pilot from Oviedo.
“So a painful weekend to assimilate. But we have to try to learn, do the maximum laps, give the team all the information possible and in Mexico with more ‘free practice’ try to optimize the car a little better, which we believe is one of the handicaps we had this weekend. By not having laps in free practice, we believe that the car can give more of itself and we have not optimized it,” argued Alonso.
Furthermore, the Asturian stressed that it will be “very complicated” to compete in the Sunday race. “I think that if today, starting 12th, we finished 13th… tomorrow starting 17th it will be difficult to get any points. So it is frustrating to sleep today or go out to the race tomorrow knowing that the possibilities are very low,” he said. from the Circuit of the Americas.