2-time World Champion Fernando Alonso has rejuvenated his F1 career this season with Aston Martin. In the recently concluded Monaco GP, he finished 2nd and had the opportunity to win the race if not for Aston Martin’s poor strategy. However, he still showed faith in his team with a great positive attitude, which we did not see previously from him.
In 2023, Alonso finished in the top 3 in all the races apart from the Azerbaijan GP. As a result, he is currently standing in the 3rd position with 93 points behind Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. Moreover, Aston Martin is in 2nd place ahead of Mercedes and Ferreri.
When Alonso started the race on hard compounds, many people questioned Aston Martin’s strategy. Speaking about it, Alonso said after the race, “We were brave on the strategy… It’s not normal that you start on the first row of the grid and you choose the hard tire, trying to do the opposite of the leaders. That shows, the commitment from the team and how aggressive everyone was in Aston Martin to try to get the win.”
There was another questionable moment from Aston Martin during the race when they sent Alonso with dry tires with heavy rain on the track. After the race, Alonso said, “For me, it was very clear that the track, on that lap, was completely dry, apart from Turn 7 and 8… So I stopped for dries. The weather forecast, it was a small shower and the small quantity of rain as well that we had.”
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