Alonso’s Aston Martin has competitors at Silverstone – Crank it up, for God’s sake!

2023-07-09 18:25:03

It seemed that only Mercedes could disturb Aston Martin’s options of being the second team in question, but each race a new team appears that not only competes with it but also surpasses it. In Austria it was Ferrari, and now at Silverstone it has been McLaren, who has shown his power after the first evolutions of the English team this season. The second and fourth position of Lando Norris and Piastri, respectively, have left a very good taste in the mouths of the English team after Norris managed to contain Hamilton’s Mercedes that did not know, or better, could not attack the second position after withdraw the safety car that caused Magnussen to break, and that the McLaren car was wearing softer tyres.

From Aston Martín it was already announced that in Silverstone they would have to suffer as in Austria. The two circuits are drawn up with very fast corners in which the green car is not as comfortable as other cars, and Even so, Fernando Alonso has known how to manage the race very well, extending the life of the tires waiting for the rain or a safety car, to be able to win at the stop what was unlikely to be achieved on the track. At the end seventh and thank you.

But if we compare the results of Aston Martin, who were known to be weak in England, with those of Ferrari who came with more options and hope, the balance of the Asturian team is even better. The same thing always happens, as soon as they see themselves with more options, those of Maranello fail in fundamentals, in the management of the team in the race. Leclerc’s double stop, leaving Sainz out on harder tires show a clear lack of ideas, of efficiency that has left them with almost no points in a race in which they were aiming for the podium. Carlos was sold behind the safety car with harder tires and even his teammate, who did not ask for permission to do so, overtook him without too much difficulty.

At the top, the usual, a Max Verstappen who tries to make his career interesting, attract attention by being important on the radio with messages in which the Dutchman assures that the car is difficult to drive or that the tires do not work too well. Excuses, everything goes smoothly and, although winning is never easy and takes a lot of work and concentration, for Max it is being a walk, he could listen to the radio, a podcast and he would still win. Not even the brilliance and drive of Lando Norris, who managed to lead four laps of the race, disturbed the defending champion. But Red Bull also has a cross, Sergio Pérez, who may not finish the year in the bull’s car if he does not improve the results. An old and trusted acquaintance of the team, the Australian Daniel Ricciardo, lurks from the sidelines.