2023-10-29 01:03:55
Four races remain until the end of the Formula 1 World Championship. Four races until the end of the course. To close a year in which we have been excited. In which we have dreamed. In which Fernando Alonso’s 33rd victory, Fernando Alonso’s 33rd victory, has been a more than real option. Now everything has changed. Now it’s time to sweat. Now it’s time to fight. Now, in Mexico, it will be time to row and do a lot to demonstrate that what happened in the US was not a mirage.
That the pace in Austin, in a test in which they went from less to more, even in the times of the leading drivers, was not an oasis in the middle of the desert in which Aston Martin seems to have entered since the summer. Since that increasingly distant Dutch GP in which they achieved their last podium. Their last drawer in a World Cup in which we must not forget where those from Silverstone come from.
Because they come from behind. From far, far back. And despite coming from so low, they have seven podiums in 2023. It was surreal in February, but we got so used to the caviar Alonso and the English team that… what to see them even in the middle zone, what to see them being seventh or sixth and having a rhythm with that of the US knows little.
Alonso wants another podium
The podium is wanted. That is where Alonso opts, in his words, before closing 2023. Yes, that was what he said in the Mexico preview. In the run-up to a Grand Prix that, like the USA, has gone somewhat awry for his interests. In none of the Free Practices, of the three Free Practices, has he had a good return.
It’s had a twist that says ‘okay, here’s Aston Martin’. Sector 3 has always been stuck. Always, when she has pushed, the Hermanos Rodríguez final zone has gone away. Track outings, spins… and also, too much time in the garage. Too many changes. Too many minutes wasted.
There are many doubts with them. As there are also with Ferrari. With Carlos Sainz. Sometimes yes sometimes no. It depends on how the wind blows. Because it seems that they are, but it also seems that they are not. And it’s all because of the enormous equality that exists in that middle zone behind Red Bull. What is behind the champion team and after a Max Verstappen who has performed in every race held in 2023… except in Singapore.
Pérez, motivation… and pressure?
His rivals, several. What if Aston Martin, what if McLaren, what if Ferrari and Mercedes… Sometimes even even Sergio Pérez, his teammate. He races at home, with the motivation, or the pressure, that this entails for a driver who is where he is but who may stop being there next year.
Thus, the chips are placed on a complicated asphalt. Difficult. Different. Because height plays a role. Because they go with minimal load despite the front wings. Because Mexico is passion and love for F1.
Schedule and where to watch the Mexican GP
Because there are only four races left in a World Cup that is already coming to an end. The Mexican Grand Prix race will begin at 9:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular time on Sunday, October 29, one hour less in the Canary Islands, and can be seen live on ‘DAZN F1’. On the laSexta website we will experience everything, from the run-up to the statements after the test, and of course the turn by turn of hopefully a race at the Hermanos Rodríguez.
Let us remember that in Spain, in the early hours of October 28 to 29, the time must be changed or has had to be changed. At 03:00 it is 02:00.
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