Fernando Alonso: “The advantage of having two fewer races is that we will avoid being last in Bahrain and Jeddah”

After another frustrating day for Aston Martinthis time at the Japanese Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso made a somewhat encouraging but realistic forecast for the coming months.

In dialogue with AM850the Spanish driver was asked about the ‘extra time’ that the teams will have to work due to the cancellation of the Grand Prix of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, due to the war conflict in the Middle East.

“It’s going to be the same for us. We’re going to spend a month working to improve, but the line of work is already marked, it’s already clear. The only thing we are going to avoid is being last in Bahrain and last in Jeddah. It is the advantage of having two fewer races. But it’s not that because we have one more month we are going to work more,” explained the F1 champion in 2005 and 2006 with Renault.

And he completed: “The work was going to be all available hours from here to Miami. But in Miami we are not going to have results from that work, because that work is for three or four months. “In Miami we are going to have the same car as here, but it does not mean that from here to Miami we are not going to find solutions that will be applied for the second part of the season.”

Specifically regarding the team’s performance this Friday in Suzuka, Alonso said: “I prefer to have the McLaren, which has big problems and is fast on the track. Having a reliable weekend and being among the last does not offer you any satisfaction. But hey, the team is not sitting in a chair looking at the trees, they are working hard.”

“What happens is that in Formula 1 things do not happen from day to night. You need months of work and projects completely reconfigured and pointed in a direction opposite to the one you had started at the time. All this will take a few months: I believe that until the (European) summer, after the summer, we will see a very similar situation every weekend,” concluded the father this week, which is why he was not present in FP1.