🗣️'Actually, I don't know exactly what position will be a good one for us.' Fernando Alonso insists that he’s not thinking about pole position for the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix after topping the practice times on Friday ⬇️
took the top spot in the late afternoon FP2 sessionHis team-mate Lance Stroll was sixth fastest, despite the Canadian missing last week’s testing and being replaced by Felipe Drugovich, due to a wrist injury and thus having to dial himself in.rival teams tipped Aston to be in the mix with Ferrari and MercedesAsked if would now be disappointed if he didn’t get pole on Saturday, Alonso was keen to keep expectations in check.
“It's very easy to make a mistake, it's not the same fighting for P12, P14 as fighting for top five positions, because the pressure is different, the adrenaline is different. So there are a lot of things that we as a team, we have to grow together, in this in this process.“I expect that we will unfortunately make some mistakes, I maybe make some mistakes, it's a completely new team, new procedures, the team as well. So we have to be with the feet on the ground.
“At the moment we are just concentrating on ourselves. Still a lot of things to improve in the car, the balance was not completely perfect today. “So we tried to re-group everything and be the strongest team possible. So that's the process we are now, and it's very interesting.”Alonso also hailed the efforts of the team in recent months to move forward. Aston finished seventh in the constructors' championship last season, beaten to sixth on countback by Alfa Romeo.“But everything is relative to what the other teams are doing.
“And as I said the knowledge that this team has, the talent that this team has, is probably unprecedented. The group of people we have. So that's something that is very encouraging for the future.”
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