Fernando Alonso frequented the media after his successful career in Singapore. The Spanish rider was very happy with his eighth place after a weekend that had not started in the best way. “Good. Four points more than we deserved here, because we didn’t deserve to be here at all,” said the double world champion after the race. But at the same time, the 14th-placed rider said he needed to find several tenths if he wanted to continue fighting for the points.
Aston Martin is currently one of the worst teams on the grid, but now there is a break where it will work to become the fifth team on the grid again. For this, Fernando Alonso assured that “We need new parts and find three or four tenths to be able to lead this intermediate group. When we don’t have the car, we have to fight to score points. “We’re doing well and everyone here is more tired than me,” he said.
On the fact that this is the first race in the history of this circuit where the safety car has not come out and that has meant Fernando Alonso has had to make do with what he has: “It’s one of the first times that the safety car has not come out here in Singapore. It didn’t help us and we had to retire the whole race. Very physical, very hard on the tyres. We played the first half behind Nico Hulkenberg to put pressure on him.. By stopping a few laps before, we managed to overtake him.
But the Asturian is clear that if he wants to continue scoring points he must raise the level, as he managed to score points in these two races because it is a street circuit: “We suffered a lot this weekend and we must raise the level in the next races if we want to score points. We took points in Baku and Singapore because they were street circuits. When you arrive on a normal circuit, with normal performances, you don’t have the pace to take points. and we have to raise the bar.
“According to all the rankings we have in the team, we are the eighth team. We were supposed to be there on the 15th.“Talking to Nico Hulkenberg, he told me they are the fifth team. If you talk to Williams, they tell you they are the fifth team. What is clear is that we are not the fifth team and we have had two good performances in the last races, but we do not have the advantages that they have and we have to improve,” Alonso commented.
On this circuit it is quite difficult to overtake and Alonso used a strategy to get past Hülkenberg: “It was difficult to overtake, as always on street circuits, and it was a game of wheel adjustment. They are interesting races because they are very tactical, you have to know when to pull and when not to stop. we made a undermine Nico stopped earlier and we managed to overtake himso happy with the strategy.
The Asturian acknowledged that he was approaching the break with a good taste of having scored points: “We had a good start, good time and good strategy. We leave Nico behind and find ourselves in front of him. We managed the tires and brakes well. We were afraid of overheating the brakes. Finishing the race is always a success. “We scored points and we are going into this break with a good taste in our mouths.”
