Alonso: We pay for a risky decision

Fernando Alonso showed only the twelfth result in Saturday’s qualifying in Austin, after which he explained the continued failures by saying that Aston Martin paid for the risky decision to introduce technical innovations, although they understood that there would simply not be time to to find the optimal one. approach them.

Fernando Alonso: “We obviously can’t change the car’s settings, so the driving experience is pretty much the same as yesterday. Moreover, we simply don’t have enough training, because on Friday I only completed two laps in the first part of qualifying, and in today’s qualifying there were three more laps.

Obviously if you actually miss qualifying on Friday you will no longer be in the best shape for qualifying on Saturday as you were unable to choose the optimal angle of attack of the front wing and adapt to driving the car with a minimum of fuel. load.

So today we could only show the twelfth result, but we will see what we can do in the race. Of course I’m disappointed, but we can only hope that we can at least earn a few points, although I don’t think that will happen this weekend. It hurts.

Of course, we took a big risk when we decided to introduce some technical innovations to Austin, even though we understood that we only had one training available. And now we pay for it.

We race to win, not to score points, but sometimes you have to make bold decisions. Let’s hope that by the end of the season, when we better understand how the new products work, we can compensate for these losses.”