Fernando Alonso admitted the 2024 season has been extra taxing for him as his automotive’s unpredictable dealing with has left him missing confidence.
The 2-times world champion completed on the rostrum eight instances final yr however a single fifth place stays his finest end in a grand prix up to now this season.
“The automotive just isn’t simple to drive and it’s a bit of bit unpredictable at instances,” Alonso admitted. “So this clearly removes confidence to the driving force, when you find yourself not in a position to push and to belief that the automotive will do the identical in each nook, in each lap.
“This inconsistency is one thing that’s not nice when you find yourself behind the wheel and I’m struggling extra this yr than beforehand.”
Aston Martin haven’t been in a position to problem the highest 4 groups for a lot of the season and have more and more discovered themselves battling the likes of RB and Haas. Alonso mentioned they’ve needed to take larger dangers of their strategy which at instances has damage them extra.
“Clearly when margins are so tight and you might be in a detailed battle for one or two factors, generally you are taking extra dangerous selections. Typically you gamble on a method. Typically you threat greater than what you must within the begin or on a set-up alternative that we went for.
“As a substitute of adjusting one thing minimal earlier than qualifying, we alter the entire automotive earlier than qualifying as a result of we all know that with the present automotive in FP3, we will be unable to attain multiple or two factors, so that you threat it extra.
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“There are at all times penalties with issues that you simply do when you find yourself used to struggle for increased positions and you end up simply aiming for one or two factors, generally you threat all of it to have a high 5 or being out of the factors just isn’t a giant loss. These type of issues we be taught lots throughout this season and possibly has been our – or, my – private largest issue.”
Alonso mentioned will probably be necessary for the workforce to right the issues with its automotive within the second half of the season with the intention to guarantee it makes the proper selections with its automotive design for subsequent yr.
“I feel our goal, and my private want, is to search out the route and to discover a comfy path into the event that we will go into winter interval with some extra belief of what we do after which having a extra regular 2025 marketing campaign,” he mentioned.
“So 2024, as I mentioned, the highest 4 groups are a bit of bit out of attain, so we simply want to focus on our personal growth, our personal belief within the automotive, and get higher for subsequent yr.”
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