{"id":248229,"date":"2025-07-08T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248229\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:42:12","slug":"fernando-alonso-angered-by-aston-martins-f1-strategy-in-british-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248229\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso angered by Aston Martin’s F1 strategy in British GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso<\/a> was angry that Aston Martin opted against giving him the same strategy as team-mate Lance Stroll<\/a> during the Formula 1 British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The double F1 world champion dropped two places to finish ninth at Silverstone, while Stroll climbed from 17th to seventh in the changeable conditions.<\/p>\n

Stroll was even third at one point, having benefited from two perfectly-timed early pitstops. He made his first under virtual safety car conditions on lap six, climbed into the top 10 on his soft rubber against others on intermediates, then pitted again for the green-striped tyres on lap 10 when rain resurfaced.<\/p>\n

This allowed him to jump into the podium positions, as there were drivers on older intermediates who pitted later, including Alonso on lap 11\u00a0\u2013 which dropped him from sixth to 10th.<\/p>\n

Alonso\u2019s second stop came on lap 37, making him the first driver to switch to slicks late on, but that move came a few tours too early as the bulk of the field, including Stroll, did not come in again until laps 41-44 of 52.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very hard race to execute, and for us, it ended up being a missed opportunity,\u201d Alonso told DAZN, having just witnessed Sauber<\/a>\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> claim a maiden podium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not happy, obviously. We started seventh and finished ninth \u2013 we executed something badly.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually in these kinds of situations, his [Stroll] side of the garage tends to be more accurate. They did well. In fact, Lance pitted twice before I even made my first stop, which put him up in third.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why sometimes I find it hard to understand, because we have another car giving us information, and if that car is in third place, I don\u2019t know how we can\u2019t use that information from our side of the garage. It\u2019s in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Oscar <\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing<\/p>\n

Photo by: Sam Bloxham \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It left the 43-year-old with a \u201cbitter taste\u201d as it is during mixed-weather conditions that drivers rely on their teams the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the experience, but I don’t have the data,\u201d said Alonso. \u201cWhen they call me to pit, I pit. I can feed back the track conditions, but I cannot do much more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever says that the driver makes [the decisions in] these conditions and wins the races, it’s bullshit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is just a data-driven race with all the parameters we have in the car. I think the first stop was difficult to read, I understand that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Lewis] Hamilton, [George] Russell, [Pierre] Gasly, Carlos [Sainz], myself, we all stopped on one lap. Obviously, we were P5, P6, P7, so it’s very difficult to gamble in that moment of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we exited behind Esteban [Ocon], Lance, Nico, a lot of cars that made a better call on the first stop. And then the second [stop]… I was the first one to pit for dry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team thought that the inter tyre was losing temperature on the surface and it was the moment to pit. And I lost like 25 seconds again, so yeah, it was frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Aston Martin boss Andy Cowell has denied there being a strategy issue with Alonso\u2019s side of the garage, as pre-race the vastly different starting positions offered the potential for varying strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think there’s a problem,\u201d said Cowell. \u201cThe strategy is done centrally because there’s only one pit box.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you need to make sure that you consider it from a team perspective. Early on it felt really clear when to do the stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntermediates [were] progressively wearing out and the track was getting drier and drier. I think listening to the radio conversation with all the teams, everybody was thinking, \u2018we should be stopping, we should be stopping. Now is the time to go\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went early with Fernando. With hindsight, too early. But we very nearly stopped both cars that same lap.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is only now in hindsight that Cowell feels it \u201cwould have been better\u201d for Alonso to mimic Stroll\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Silverstone weekend leaves Aston Martin eighth in the constructors\u2019 championship, with Stroll and Alonso respectively 12th and 14th in the drivers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n

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