Hard work should ensure Alonso stays at Aston Martin

07:35 in the morning

Alonso’s total package

At Aston Martin they sincerely hope that Fernando Alonso stays. The Spaniard should be retained beyond the 2025 season through an attractive overall package, when Honda joins in 2026 as a factory team, said team boss Mike Krack after the Japan Grand Prix:

“When we have a wind tunnel available with a new simulator and the whole thing is finished with Honda, it’s really interesting, certainly more than two years ago. But we also know that it’s good to have all these things “But you have to give it on the track. That is the most important thing.

By this he means that the package must be right on the track in order to guarantee Alonso a high result, which is why they are working so hard:

“We still have to do more. We definitely have to do more. But I think if he can fight and not be in the middle of nowhere, that is already the first step. We will not stop. We will bring more pieces as the season continues to motivate him and make him happy at Aston Martin.”

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8:35 in the morning

Start McLaren

At McLaren, confidence is back after a good start to the season. Therefore, team boss Andrea Stella explained his desired goal for the weekend, but also warned that the usual Formula 1 systems should always be observed:

“I think if we look at the facts and figures, it would be a good result for our team if we could finish third in the championship and thus introduce McLaren as the third best car. Of course we will welcome this opportunity. At the same time, there are some tracks, like here, where we can keep pace with Ferrari.”

“But to be fair, Formula 1 is not about wishing ‘I’d like to be in this position’, it’s about pushing as hard as you can. As a team you just try to make the car as good as possible.” Develop as much as you can and use the race weekend as well as possible, And then try to see where you stand at the end, “he continued.

There will be updates in the next race, as well as from the competition, so he concluded as follows:

“It won’t make a big difference for us to say ‘we want P2 or P1’ because we are building the car as quickly as possible.”

Oscar Piastri McLaren McLaren F1 ~Oscar Piastri (McLaren) ~

8:00 in the morning

Expectations and goals

Guanyu Zhou finally heads home for the next race. They have not raced in China since 2019 and will be the first Chinese to compete in a Formula 1 home Grand Prix.

Zhou’s expectations are high and his goals are ambitious if you consider the latest results of the Sauber team:

“It’s the race I’m looking forward to and it’s also the race that’s most important to me – as a driver I want to do well. I want to finish the race and when I finish the race,” I don’t see one. the reason why I don’t fight for points – because the car has to be strong so we have to do everything right and then we can commit,” Zhou said in his press conference after the Japan Grand Prix.

Zhou’s score in the home game? That’s all!

Guanyu Zhou's Sauber F1 ~Guanyu Zhou (Sauber) ~

07:22 in the morning

Would you like to delete the year 2025? Not for Mercedes!

Toto Wolff is clear that Mercedes should take a few steps forward. In his press conference after the race weekend in Suzuka, he commented, among other things, on Lewis Hamilton’s statements that there had been little progress:

“We were very fast in the Esses, where last year we were nowhere. And today in the race, if you look at how it was, we tried to do one stick and probably have tires “We had a bad first situation. position, but a competitive second and third place.”

It is also clear to him that Mercedes cannot only offer this year and next year to fully comply with the new regulations for 2026, which he made very clear:

“We at Mercedes cannot completely abandon the current regulations and then continue driving at the level we are now. That is not the claim of our brand and of our partners. So no. I think we must “Keep trying, keep working to improve your understanding and time certain, when the FIA comes up with new regulations, we will deal with it, like everything else, and maybe sooner.”

7:15 in the morning

It is unstoppable

Yuki Tsunoda seems unstoppable at the moment. The Japanese, who works for Racing Bulls, also impressed at his home Grand Prix in Suzuka with a similar aggressive maneuver against Pierre Gasly at Alpine.

07:13 in the morning

Ice cream to lick

No, I did not make a mistake in the subtitle of this entry, LEC was right to capitalize it in this context, because the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc will go among the owners of the ice cream parlor.

As Sky, quoting the Italian daily newspaper Newspaper informationLeclerc plans to open a restaurant in Milan to be called “LEC”, an abbreviation of his name in Formula 1. With him in the entrepreneurial boat are Federico Grom and Guido Marinetti, who are already doing business with a growing ice cream. Parlor chain “Grom” offers high-quality and expensive ice cream in several large cities.

In the coming days there will be a press conference in Milan, in which Leclerc’s manager Nicolas Todt will also participate, which will be the beginning of the project.

My question to you now is: stracciatella or hazelnut?

Charles Leclerc Ferrari Ferrari F1 ~Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) ~

07:00 in the morning

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