🗣️ 'The car seems to perform in any conditions' Fernando Alonso says it's a 'huge relief' for Aston Martin to be just as competitive at the SaudiArabianGP as it was at the F1 opener ⬇️
Fernando Alonso says it was a"huge relief" to find that Aston Martin is just as competitive in Saudi Arabia as it was at Formula 1's season-opener in Bahrain.Aston Martin was the surprise package of the Bahrain Grand Prix earlier this month, with Alonso taking a podium on his first race with the Silverstone team.
But with pre-season testing also taking place at the abrasive Sakhir circuit, teams only received a partial picture of one single track, and Alonso said Aston came to the second race in Jeddah with"some question marks" about whether it would be able to confirm its leap forward at Jeddah's vastly different street circuit.
"I came to Jeddah with some question marks about our performance in Bahrain," Alonso said after qualifying third in Saudi Arabia, but will be promoted to second due to Charles Leclerc's grid penalty. "It was very good, but we did our winter testing in Bahrain and race one in Bahrain. We didn't test the new ’23 cars on any other circuit, so it was important to come to Jeddah and see if we kept being strong in the order.
"To feel competitive again here, obviously, is a huge relief for the team. And this is again an extra motivation for everyone in the factory to keep pushing, because the car seems to perform in any conditions."
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