Fernando Alonso: Not being able to get on the car, to his best result of 2025 in Hungary

Aston Martin’s Spanish had to get off the first rehearsal session for back pain and closed the weekend with a large fifth place.

On the 29th, Fernando Alonso blew 44 candles. Beyond its veteranía for a very high level athlete, its walk in Formula 1 is still very competitive. It is true, the 2025 season was difficult and had to wait until the ninth date to get out of zero in the World Cup table.

Aston Martin’s walk did not help much, by the way. The Silverstone team is very focused on 2026, year of new regulations, with Adrian Newey at the head. The Spanish wanted to take advantage of each race, but could not. And when he arrived in Hungary, 14th date, something else joined him: a strong back pain that questioned his participation.

Nano decided to get off the first free training to take care of his physique. The Brazilian Felipe Drugovich, the eternal reserve of Aston Martin, took his place. The team reported that Alonso would be evaluated. But the combative spirit of the two -time champion was stronger and appeared above the AMR25 in the second round. And, like the phoenix, he returned with everything, because This Sunday was fifth and signed his best result of the year.

“I did not do the first essay, in the second I skipped the long batch to do a few kilometers. Today, going grilled I only did a few kilometers, it has been a weekend in echo mode and it went well”he said after the race. And he joked: “I’m going to repeat it, because the more turns you give, then the engineers complicate it.”

When analyzing Aston Martin’s good performance in Hungaroring, the highest point of the season (Lance Stroll was seventh), the Asturian said: “They gave me a good car for my birthday, because I drove the same in the other races and I didn’t finish fifth. It was a surprise to go so well. These last weeks were a roller coaster. In Spa we were last and we went with our heads down and worried for the rest of the year. Here we leave the opposite, with optimism and thinking that if in the ten missing races we can do three or four weekends like this, I do not ask much, fighting between the top eight or seven, that would give us many points. We will try to learn from what we have done here. “