Fernando Alonso says that Aston Martin have the second-best car on the Formula One grid as he took a remarkable podium at the season opener in Bahrain.
‘This is just unreal! It is amazing for the team. It was great,’ Alonso, who was making his Aston Martin debut after leaving Alpine, said post-race.
‘To come here and finish on the podium in the first race of the year, it is amazing what Aston Martin did over the winter to have the second best car on race one. ‘We had not the best start today and we had to pass on track. It was more exciting, more adrenaline. I hope the people enjoyed it, we enjoyed it and now we go to Jeddah [Saudi Arabia].’Aston Martin finished seventh in the standings last season with many shocked that two-time champion Alonso had moved there but Sunday’s podium and the positive results from pre-season testing have vindicated the 41-year-old’s decision.
Last year, Red Bull recorded a double-DNF in the season opener but in 2023 it was a very different story, with the team recording a 1-2 finish after locking out the front row of the grid for the first time since Abu Dhabi 2013. ‘It was a very good first stint where I made my gap and from there it was just looking after the tyres,’ Verstappen said, having finally won the Bahrain Grand Prix for the first time in his career.
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