The Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), double Formula One World Champion, who finished seventh this Sunday in the British Grand Prix, the tenth of the championship, declared at the Silverstone circuit (England) -in which he celebrated two of his 32 victories in the premier class – that he believes that position “was a little better than they were going”.
“We were slow all weekend, in all sessions and it was no different in the race. We lacked rhythm, at the beginning with (Frenchman Pierre) Gasly (Alpine); and at the end with (Mexican) ‘Checo’ (Pérez , from Red Bull) and with (Thai Alex) Albon”, explained the double world champion from Asturias, who, just a few weeks away from turning 42, is the great sensation of the first half of an event in which, with six podium finishes in the first ten races, he is third, with 135 points.
“But hey, we tried to stay on the track for a long time with the stockings (the medium compound tyres); and the safety car came out to get in and put the soft ones on,” he told the Dazn television channel this Sunday at Silverstone. , Alonso: the new Aston Martin flagship, also third in the Constructors’ World Championship.
“From there, it was a matter of trying to defend the position. We lost a few points with ‘Checo’, in the end, but he was going very fast, and I think that the seventh, in the end, is a little better than what we were going in”, he commented the Spaniard, who has 104 podiums in the premier motor class and who will once again look for his long-awaited ’33rd’ victory in two weekends at the Hungaroring, venue for the Hungarian Grand Prix; where, almost twenty years ago, he astonished the world by signing the first.
“Look at other teams, for example the Ferrari, who were flying here all weekend, and finished ninth and tenth. That’s what we have to avoid,” Alonso said after finishing seventh this Sunday at Silverstone.
