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BEAUTIFUL POL
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Aston Martin’s improvements have not borne fruit. You already warned Fernando Alonsosaying that he did not have many expectations and in the Sprint Qualifying it was clear that they still have teams ahead of them and they are not the best of the rest, although they have only had one training session to test the pieces. He will start 14th and will have a difficult time achieving points with so few laps.
“It will be very difficult to fight for the points, but we will see what we can learn,” Alonso explained at the end of the qualy sprint. The Asturian is clear that it is difficult to overtake so many cars in such a short session taking into account that “only the first eight positions start tomorrow.”
It will be very difficult to fight for points
Fernando Alonso
The improvements
“We wanted to experiment a little with the car today and we have made some setup changes before the Sprint qualifying,” acknowledged the ’14’.which could explain the small step back that Aston Martin seems to have taken after some free practice where they showed a little that improvements could have worked
“Everything feels good, but you can’t optimize it the first time. We wanted to make those ‘set-up’ changes, the car felt good but we will continue studying it,” he expressed about the improvements they have introduced, making it clear that with just some training it was difficult to understand them.
Low expectations for the Sprint qualy
“We went to the time trial without a clear expectation, we made several changes to the set-up and we will try to find out if we improved the car or made it worse. We were relaxed in qualifying because Q3 was out of reach. “We did some experiments on the car, we made set-up changes and we will evaluate them after qualifying,” said Fernando.
We were relaxed in qualifying because Q3 was out of reach
Fernando Alonso
“Unfortunately, it was not enough to move to SQ3 and we also had some laps eliminated due to track limits at the end. We will evaluate these changes and the new package tonight and see what we can do tomorrow,” concluded the Asturian, who He has to wait for things to happen if he wants to score points, but he will take the Sprint Race as another session to learn and understand the new pieces.
