2024-01-31 12:25:25
Fernando Alonso, the veteran Spanish driver who now defends the colors of Aston Martin, still has a future to compete for, but also a lot of past. He has spoken about this in a Dazn documentary, but he has also shared his vision for the next season, marked by a renewed spirit of triumph. “The team is hungry for victory, it is motivated and there is enthusiasm. This strength of Aston Martin will surely help me also keep a smile,” says the Spanish driver.
With his sights set on the Bahrain Grand Prix, which will begin the competition on March 2, Alonso conveys a mix of optimism and nostalgia as he remembers his glory days and the relationships forged on the asphalt.
The two-time world champion does not hesitate to evoke the 2012 Valencia Grand Prix as a high point of his career, where he felt “invincible” and in “another dimension.” “It was the closest I’ve ever felt to being invincible, to being in another dimension,” he says.
These moments of ecstasy contrast with the reflection on his first title in Interlagos, Brazil, in 2005, which for Alonso meant the culmination of a dream, released in a cry that condensed 15 years of effort and dedication. “Brazil 2005 reminds me of the liberation of a dream. Each person expresses it in a different way and I did it like this, with a shout with all my energy that represented 15 years of my sports career.” Now he remembers it with a certain nostalgia: “I think I didn’t enjoy those moments as much as I should have. I was 24 and 25 years old and I was already thinking about the next race and the next thing. I thought I would do it again, and I have few memories of that afternoon, that night, that return home or the hug with my mother and my sister.
Fernando Alonso also had words for Flavio Briatore, his former team leader at Renault, with whom he maintains an “almost paternal” relationship after 23 years. In a world where loyalties can be ephemeral, Alonso values the sincerity and trust that he has found in Briatore. “We have been together for 23 years and it has only strengthened the relationship, which is almost paternal. He is a person who I have been able to trust and who has been close. In professional sports you easily see the people who are there out of interest and those who are truly there and sincere, in which Flavio is there,” he confesses.
The rivalry with Lewis Hamilton, especially intense in 2007, is another chapter that Fernando Alonso addresses frankly. Although he acknowledges that the relationship has changed and that they do not consider themselves friends, he admits that the tension and friction of those days left an indelible mark on his memory. “We will not be friends in the future. We do not share many things, but in 2007 the rivalry reached a higher level. We began to notice that tension and that friction. You arrive at the team meeting, and you see how he has complaints to correct and improve them. yours, not both of them, and thus achieve that extra advantage,” he says and remembers the past. “There were many things that broke the harmony. We were young and immature, I was the first, but we also had a boss who did not know how to control the situation. What happened will remain under lock and key, I have erased many things. Every time we move forward it has an extra, and I think it will always be there.
However, in the sport that is so often characterized by loneliness, Fernando Alonso highlights his friendship with Giancarlo Fisichella and the good relationship with drivers like Max Verstappen and Checo Pérez. With them he shares a vision of motorsport based on trust and simplicity, values that, according to Alonso, are essential on the track. “Verstappen had more incidents in his beginnings, but I think we are very similar. We go with the team clothes and a backpack, we run on Saturday and Sunday and we go with the backpack again. We like simple things,” he says.
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