Fernando Alonso realization eight podiums last season with Aston Martin. This year he is suffering from the poor performance of his car, but he continues to obtain results well above what is expected from his car. In short, at 43 he continues to demonstrate which is one of the best on the whole grill.
But despite this, the sports director of Aston Martin, Andy Stevensondoes not place Fernando among the fastest drivers he has worked with during his three decades in Formula 1.
Give two names. One is the grand champion of the competition… and the other has only won one victory in more than 200 races: Michael Schumacher and Jean Alesi.
“There was two drivers who really impressed me when I started working with them. Those two were Michael and the second one was not in Formula 1, Jean Alesi. When he arrived in Formula 1, he was very fast. “There are many qualities for a modern driver, they have to do many things well, but there were drivers who had that pure speed from the start,” Stevenson points out.
“Michael was the fastest, I can’t deny that. At the end of the day you have a relationship with all the drivers and I get on well with all of them and I don’t want to make some of them angry by saying this one is better than him,” he said.
Talk about “pure speed”. What you have or what you don’t have and this is demonstrated from day one. And for him, Alesi and Schumacher were simply the best.
