Rain chaos, Alonso: “Different conditions on every lap” – News

The third time in the rain

When the game is tough, Fernando Alonso he answers now. In the extremely difficult Chinese Doctor Sprint features, the Aston Martin Spaniard made the most of the wet and slippery conditions that were evident in the SQ3, surprisingly managing to keep his AMR23 inside. third place on the grid, behind Norris’ McLaren and Hamilton’s Mercedes, but ahead of reigning world champion Max Verstappen’s Red Bull. Speaking to Sky Sports F1 At the end of the session Alonso realized how the bad weather gave him the hand of Aston Martin, which is otherwise in difficulty on a dry track.

Speed ​​races are unknown

“In SQ1 we were checking the radar: there was a threat of rain from the first minutes and we made some progress – explained Alonso – in SQ2, however, we didn’t pass the cut, because we were only ninth, so we weren’t very competitive in the dry. In SQ3 the rain finally arrived and each lap had slightly different conditions. The tires felt better every lap, but the circuit got worse because it was always more wetso it was hard to judge the level of grip and the level of risk you wanted to take, but in the end I’m very happy.“.

The unknown, of course, is the speed of the race, especially in the case of a dry song: “.We will find out tomorrow how competitive we will be in the long run, we will have a lot of laps to do in the Sprint and then there will be the race on Sunday. We will see if we can qualify well tomorrow as well and then we will see how it goes“.