F1: Alonso warns Ferrari about Aston Martin’s race pace
Fernando Alonso will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from fifth place on the grid.
During free practice, Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin were flying, with the Spaniard going quickest in FP2 and FP3.
There had been suggestions that Aston Martin’s impressive laptimes were due to other teams sandbagging but so far the team’s performance this weekend has proved that this is not the case.
Both Aston Martins made their way into Q3 with relative ease, with Lance Stroll qualifying in P8 while Fernando Alonso qualified in an impressive P5.
Only the Red Bulls and Ferraris managed to go faster than Alonso in Q3, putting Aston Martin in a good position to get a head start over Mercedes in the early battle for P3 in the constrictors’ championship.
Alonso was questioned for leaving Alpine for Aston Martin last summer, with his new team sitting in seventh in the championship at the time but it seems that the Spaniard’s decision has been vindicated already.
Aston Martin genuinely look like a force to be reckoned with this season, with Alonso telling the media that his team’s pace seems almost like a dream.