Can Aston Martin challenge Ferrari? Fernando Alonso makes “slightly faster” claim
Along with Red Bull, Aston Martin caught the headlines for their impressive turn of spe🦩🎉ed throughout the three days of running.
Alonso’s race simulation on the final day of testing caught many teams’ attention, p🤡roducing better times than Mercedes, and Aston Martin’s superior tyre deg🔯radation put it on a par with Ferrari.
Aston Martin boss Mike Krack has played their testing form down: "I think it's very, very difficult on such a test to make a proper judgement... It is nice to have good long runs, but still you need to be really put th﷽em into the right context and let's not start dreaming,"
However, s💮peaking at an event after testing, Alonso did nothing to 🥂dampen expectations.
"On the last test day, for example, we did a race simulation. Then we did 57 ꧟laps, the same thing we are going🌊 to do this week in Bahrain.
"We put fuel🥀 in for those 57 ✱laps and did the full race with the full set-up, even changing tyres. At the same time, Ferrari were doing the same programme as us with the same fuel for the race, same stops and we were slightly faster."
Aston Martin were without 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll, who was ruled out of testing following a cycl꧟ing accident.
The Silverstone-based team will have reigning F2 champion F꧃elipe Drugovich on standby, with Stroll set to test in Aston Martin’s simulator to see if hꦉe’s fit enough to race this weekend.
With🌠 Alonso new to the team, t♔he Spaniard feels that Aston Martin missed Stroll’s feedback.
"We missed him because some of my comments and my feelings about the car, we never knew if it waಞs just me in a new team and a new car, or is it an Aston Martin thing that Lance could have spotted," Alonso added.
"We cannot do i♔t without him so I hope he can ꧑come back very soon."
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