Less than 48 hours after his team’s car still Alpine will leave him thrown for the last time in the race, Fernando Alonso debuted with Aston Martin. At 09:00 Abu Dhabi time, the Spaniard was the first driver to hit the track after the green light, behind the wheel of the Aston Martin AMR22.
With a Aston Martin Without sponsor stickers, a black jumpsuit as he still had a contract with the French team, a camouflage helmet and the number 14 in the green car, Alonso began the new stage in the British team. The fifth team different from him if we count Renault and Alpine as a single structure.
Alonso made his debut with Aston Martin: That’s how it went in the Pirelli Test
alonso he lapped for more than half the session, returning to the pits for the last time when just over five hours had been completed. During all that time, alonso he did 97 laps on his first day, completing 512.16 kilometers.
the best time of alonso it was of 1:26.312 placing him third in the time table when his shift ended. Regarding the laps, nobody has given more, after surpassing the 88 that Sergio Pérez set. That is, before the Aston Martin teams, FerrariRed Bull and Mercedes made the change of pilots, the Asturian was first in number of laps and third in times. Although later Sainz would leave him fourth and some pilots would overcome his turns.
In the first hour, alonso he accumulated more than 100 km, arriving at 10:00 a.m. (local) with just 20 laps. At the time, he was in fourth position with a time of 1:26.700, behind Charles Leclerc, Pérez and Robert Shwartzman (Ferrari).
Later, he spent a while in the box analyzing the information with his new engineers quite happily. During the ‘break’, Pierre Gasly had moved to the front in the Alpine, but after a brief stint in pitlane after five laps, Alonso returned and improved his time to third with a 1:26.312, behind only the Ferraris.
From there there were many more stints, numerous laps and several tests with the different tire compounds, but the weather did not change again, leaving him third after the first five hours. His last stint was in the first five minutes of the sixth hour, completing the end of the Pirelli test.
The Pirelli Test in Abu Dhabi
This test has not only served to begin to acclimatize to his new team, but also to test the tires that Pirelli has created for the 2023 season. And it is that, the construction of the compounds that it already had has been changed, producing a new C1, that will be located between the previous C1 (which becomes C0) and C2.
The Asturian has played more than five hours of a day that has not had a break for lunch. Meanwhile, Felipe Drugovich is with the other all day AMR22the one intended for young pilots.
In addition to alonso, Pierre Gasly, Alonso’s substitute in Alpine; Nyck de Vries, Gasly’s replacement in AlphaTauri; Nico Hulkenberg, who returns to the F1 with Haas; and Oscar Piastri with McLaren.
It is unknown why Aston Martin has kept a low profile on social networks, and it is that during the first three hours they did not publish anything regarding the test. His last tweets were from the night before, about Sebastian Vettel. It was around four hours later when they posted two photos of Alonso greeting him in the post.
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