Fernando Alonso on first laps for Aston Martin: “Everything will change next year”

Alonso completed 97 laps and was 12th fastest at the postseason Abu Dhabi tyre test on Tuesday, the first opportunity to glimpse the new-look 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up as several drivers relocated to new garages.
“I can’t be overconfident,, as everything is going to ꦚchange next year,” said Alonso. ♈;
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“But the feeling I had in the garage with the guys, the potential of the team, the talent that I see in the engiꦕneering room here, is outstanding. So I’m rea♑lly, really, happy right now.
“When I signed for Aston Martin I was 90 p𒀰er cent happy, when they started improviꩲng and finished the season on a high I was 100 per cent happy, this morning I was 100 per cent, now I’m 100 plus!”
Alonso described driving the AMR22 for the first time: “Nothing surꦫprised me, the car was behaving well.
“We had some concerns on the steering feedback -𓂃 at Alpine the first year we had to work a lot for nearly five months on steering assistance and feedback.
“We had some concerns that we spoke the last few weeks so it was a happy surprise that I f♛elt OK with Aston’s system and we don’t need to change much.”

Alonso said about improve🔥ments that he’d like to see in his new car: “First the seat, because it’s a little painful on the left side.
“Obviously, we did 97 laps compressed in one ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmorning, so it was quite ൲extreme.
“But we will have to sit down, I have to go through now in my mind, everything that I felt. There are s🦋mall thin♚gs, most of them are comfort – not really the balance itself, or the behaviour of the car.
“The shift tones for the gears, for the pitlane, the dash messages when you do a change, how long a message pops up on the dash. You are us🐽ed to one setup and now you try to accommodate things to🀅 see in a more natural way. These kinds of things are probably the priority right now.”

Alonso compared former team Alpine to his first impressions of Aston Martin: “It is vꦐery different. Pꦫhilosophies are very different on how they design the car and how they run the car.
“So it was nice to feel the differences a little bit and now try to understand what is the best way. Next year, the 🌠car is going to be nearly 🍒new on everything. It was more about controls and other things.
“This year’s car is not anywhere ne🌜ar what we will run next year. It was not really any anything really to get confident about.”
Other debutants for new teams at the Tuesday test were 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly for Alpine, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri for McLaren, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck de Vries for AlphaTauri and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg for Haas.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sportﷺs, to fo🔯otball, to F1.