This Aston Martin has clearly gone into reverse. A car that doesn’t work every time it puts new parts on the track. Fernando Alonso experienced a real ordeal Brazilian Grand Prix. He ended up with a very sore back after almost three hours of not braking in the corners.
He later explained it on ‘DAZN’, where he looked exhausted: “Lance’s Walk He had brake problems during the formation lap, entering the gravel. I got it on every reboot, where “The brake went to the rear and it was like pulling the handbrake on a corner.”
“It hasn’t been an ideal race in that sense, We have to improve for the next one.”» says the Asturian driver, fourteenth this Sunday.
In qualifying, the car was different and Fernando was on the verge of a feat. Even aspiring to pole. “We had a better car this morning, but we had to change parts and move to other less efficient componentsand during the race we were on different surfaces which we identified as being worse,” explains the two-time Formula 1 champion.
He suffered from the rebound, which caused him severe back pain: “It’s the same for everyone, we didn’t do the work. The car, in the second part of the race, “There were a lot of porpoises and, under normal conditions, this would not have ended.”
But he didn’t want to give up and finish the race. For his mechanics, who worked so hard. And also to dedicate it to all those affected by the DANA from Valencia. “We had to finish for the mechanics, for me who had a bad time, for the people of Valencia, who are in worse situations than me today,” he concluded.