In the first half of the season, Fernando Alonso regularly climbed onto the podium and although this now happens much less often, the Spanish Aston Martin driver ensures that he is no less giving his best behind the wheel of the AMR23.
“I think I have been working at the same level all season,” said Alonso, who finished tenth today in Suzuka. “But if at the beginning of the year I was fighting for nine or ten points in every race, now I’m fighting for four or five.
It’s like in the case of Max Verstappen: it’s impossible to say that he woke up this weekend and showed the best result again, and in Singapore he just fell asleep. Even though he finished eleventh there in qualifying, he was still the best of us. Here in Suzuka he won pole again and remains the best.
We were right to be concerned beforehand about the high-speed nature of the Japanese circuit and the fast corners. By the way, we have the same concerns about Qatar: we know that the circuit in Qatar is probably not the best for us in theory.
But even on difficult days we managed to reach the final qualification thanks to a very good lap. Few people pay attention to this kind of qualifying performance, but I am very proud of it.”
In any case, Alonso remains the only driver in the championship to qualify for the qualifying finals in all stages of the season that have already taken place.
Source: F1 News
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