Fernando Alonso He showed once again why he is still one of the best. Why the years do not pass by him. Why he does not age, but rather adds more and more experience that makes him even faster. In Azerbaijanwith an Aston Martin, with an AMR24 that gives what it gives, shone in qualifying and finished in a position in the race that his team had not even seen coming.
The forecast had him at 13º. Maybe 12. Out of points. With a zero. But no. Not because he finished sixth. Sixth. After riding eighth for most of the race until Carlos Sainz And Sergio Perez HE they went to the wall. There he gained two positions for his sixth final place.
Here’s how Alonso looked once he got out of the car: “Very good race. Solid. We executed everything we had to do. We made no mistake, We have been flexible in the strategy…”
“We controlled the race. We defended ourselves Colapinto, d’Albon, de Hülkenberg“A lot of risks, going close to the walls, but without mistakes,” he said on ‘DAZN’.
Because once again, better than expected: “We didn’t have a car to participate in Q3. Not even to get ahead of Williams or Haas. Good job from the team.”
The rest came from the KOs of Sainz and Perez: “There were cars that didn’t finish… The sixth was available and we were opportunistic. As the English say.”
“We are doing the best job possible. Sometimes it is 11th place like in Monza; sometimes it is like here. Perhaps with more reward than she deserves,” Alonso concludes.
