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 speed throughout the three daꦡys of running.
Aꦫlonso’s race simulation ꧙on the final day of testing caught many teams’ attention, producing better times than Mercedes, and Aston Martin’s superior tyre degradation 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 g🌃ood long runs, but still you need to be really put them into the right con🐬text and let's not start dreaming,"
However, speaking at an eve♔nt 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-u꧟p, even changing tyres. At the same time, Ferra🔯ri 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll, who was ruled out of testing following 𒁃a cycling accident.
The Silverstone-based team will have reigning F2 champion Felipe Drugovich 🍷on standby, with Stroll set to test in Aston Martin’s simulator to see if he’s fit enough to race this weekend.
With Alonso new to the team, the Spaniard feels that Aston Martin missed Stro𝓡ll’s feedback.
"We missed him because some of my comments and my feelings about the car, we never knew if it was just me in a new team and a new car, or is it an Aston Martin thing that Lance could have spꩵotted," Alonso added.
"We cannot do it w🃏ithout him so I hope he can come back very soon."
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