Alonso is not giving up the fight for the title! We need to win, comes from Aston. The star Spaniard also spoke of Red Bull’s dominance

Fernando Alonso is having a great season with Aston Martin. The legendary Spanish racer has been on the podium every race this year except for one, and he certainly hasn’t given up the fight for the title yet! Now, he says, he and Aston need to clearly target victory.

The Red Bull Racing team is clearly dominant in F1 so far this year. Max Verstappen has won four of the six Grands Prix so far, finishing second twice.

His teammate Sergio Pérez is slightly worse off in terms of points scored, but it’s still enough for the Red Bull drivers to dominate the drivers’ championship.

Fernando Alonso is the closest competitor to the Austrian team in the title fight. The forty-one-year-old Spaniard has scored 93 points so far in the 2023 season and is third in the drivers’ championship.

In the first three races of this season, he finished third each time and therefore on the podium. Although he finished fourth in Azerbaijan, he followed up his podium finish of third in the Miami Grand Prix.

And the last time, at the Monaco Grand Prix, he moved up the leaderboard even further. In the streets of the Principality of Monaco he finished second, but almost 28 seconds behind the winner Verstappen.

However, what the final standings would have looked like at the sixth round of the season, had there not been a communication error at Aston and the mechanics not put dry tyres on Alonso in rainy conditions, will remain one big unanswered question.

However, the two-time F1 champion is not giving up the fight for the title, although he admits that he is simply not up to Red Bull’s speed. And not just Aston Martin, but the entire grid.

We’re definitely not giving up!

“Max and Red Bull dominate every race. Even with great results, we are losing every race to them, so I don’t know,” said Alonso, quoted by Racing News 365.

“We will need weekends when Red Bull has some problems. Just like Sergio had here in Monaco. That means a race where they won’t score points. And if Max has one or two weekends like that, we’ll be a little bit closer in the championship. That’s motorsport. Anything can happen. But in terms of pure pace, I don’t think we have a chance yet. But we will definitely not give up,” he added.

On the Spanish Grand Prix and the goals…

“I hope there will be a lot of green in the stands this weekend. We’ve got a lot of third places so far, second place in Monaco and the next (goal) we need is to get the top spot,” Alonso said at the team press conference.

The Barcelona circuit has seen one fairly significant change, with Formula One returning to its original configuration. This is because the chicane, or the sequence of turns 13 and 14, has been removed.

“We have a lot of experience with this circuit, but it’s always a good challenge. It will be interesting to race without chicanes again and hopefully it will create more overtaking opportunities, ” he concluded.

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