Fernando Alonso appeared before the media in the circuit of Marina Bay after its spectacular ranking in Azerbaijan Grand Prix of Formula 1. The Spanish pilot of Aston Martin He managed to set the seventh best time and will start from an unreal position for his car, the same one with which Throw Stroll He will start from seventeenth place.
“The truth is that today I didn’t expect it at all. We had a pretty tough weekend and this circuit brings out all the weaknesses in our car. We have no traction, no steering, no braking. In general, we were very afraid of him. I progressed in Q1, I was already happy and I was saying ‘I’m going to stay here now’. When I was tenth in Q2, I said ‘tell me who’s coming because they’re probably going to throw me out’. I missed him by a hair’s breadth and then in Q3, who knew that the two of us Ferrari They were going to stay behind me. I start seventh on the clean side, I can finish sixth in the first corner (Nico Hulkenberg “He’s sixth)… So I’m a bit out of position and tomorrow is going to be a race where I don’t belong. I’m going to try to do what I can,” began a smiling Alonso.
“I will try to make a good start because we saw that there is a big difference between the clean zone and the dirty zone. I would have liked to finish ninth, when we saw that Carlos (Sainz) I wasn’t going to be able to start – because of the accident – we were tempted to take ninth place, just in case I finished eighth, which was worse and in the end I ended up seventh. A lot of things are going well for us. We’ve done this time trial 200 times and I haven’t finished seventh out of 199. I’ll stick to today’s time and see what we can do tomorrow,” he said.
“All the laps were very good. The car was consistent and could do laps without too many mistakes. The points are awarded tomorrow, logically on a street circuit where it is difficult to overtake, so start as far back as possible. I am very happy with my seventh place, but we have to finish the job tomorrow,” insisted Alonso.
“Unfortunately, it will come. I wish it wouldn’t DRS tomorrow and we would do 50 laps as we started, but here we have the eighth or ninth car and that is the reality. We do not hide it. We have seen it in all the sessions. We have seen that Lance is 18th, we have only two Saubers behind and tomorrow we can dream of overtaking the haas“But if we get points, let’s keep them and leave here on Monday so they don’t take them away from us,” he joked.
