The cruelest criticism of Fernando Alonso: “Pesetero!”

2023-05-19 12:29:29

Fernando Alonso is experiencing a fantastic start to the season with which his team did not even dream months ago. Five races, four Asturian podiums and at Aston Martin they hallucinate with the performance of the AMR23. But, despite this, the Asturian is not free from criticism.

The last to launch a strong attack against the Spanish pilot has been Eddie Jordan, founder of the Jordan Grand Prix -a team that eventually became Aston Martin- and that he has not hesitated to dismiss Alonso as a pesetero who in his career has put money before sporting achievements.

in the podcast Formula for Successwhich he performs together with the former driver David Coulthard, Jordan believes that the biggest mistake made by Fernando Alonso was prioritizing money over competitiveness.

“Fernando, you were wrong”

The Irishman believes that Fernando “He could have won five or six World Cups”, but that he was wrong in his decisions because “he was chasing money”. “He went to teams where he was getting more money than he would have gotten from another team that probably had a better chance of winning the world title,” says the veteran former crew chief. Jordan considers that the decision to go to McLaren on two occasions, to Ferrari between 2010 and 2014 and his return to Renault were conditioned by the financial aspect rather than the sporting one.

“Sometimes when you look back, you think it was a mistake. And if he was sitting across from me, I’d say, “Fernando, I think you were wrong.” “He went to teams where he was getting more money than he would have gotten from another team that probably had a better chance of winning the world title,” says Eddie Jordan, making an implicit reference to offers Fernando Alonso received, for example, from Red Bull. .

“You still have a great legacy, two times world champion. But you, in your heart, know that it could have been five or six easy”, judgment.

“I think Fernando is so strong because he is angry. He is angry because he only has two titles and that anger is what drives him to stay hungry”concluded the expilot in reference to his brilliant start to the season with Aston Martin.