Fernando Alonso sentences Aston Martin’s accusations of plagiarism and defends this difference

Fernando Alonso exceeded all expectations that was on him and achieved a spectacular podium in the start of the World Cup of Formula 1 in this 2023. The Asturian barely needed a race in aston martin to achieve a Third place that a few months ago, when I was still with the Alpine team, it seemed unthinkable.

The Spanish pilot made the right choice with the change of team, enjoying again aboard his car as he had not been seen for many years. Proof of this is that Alonso overtook on the Sakhir track to the Mercedes of Russell and Hamilton before doing the same with Carlos Sainz, despite the fact that the Asturian had a touch at the start with his partner Stroll.

But Alonso’s third place and the fact that Aston Martin fights side by side with those at the top has not been liked by certain teams in the box, and the AM23 has even been accused of plagiarism after the departure of Dan Fallows to the British team, with statements such as that it was “the third Red Bull” or pointing out that they had copied some of the documentation with phrases like “They have a good memory…”.

Alonso ends the accusations

has been his own Fernando Alonso who wanted to end the controversy upon his arrival in Saudi Arabia to contest the Grand Prix that takes place at the Jeddah circuit: “I don’t care about comments. I’m not pending, except to focus on my team and improve. But you can clearly see that there are differences between both cars at first glance“.

Addressing the displaced Spanish press, the Asturian delved into the subject: “Visually, they are different and an example of this is that Mercedes says that 50% we have your car and Red Bull also says that 50% we have it. AND there cannot be two more different concepts that those two That clearly indicates that neither of the two theories is true.”

“We have a different concept from those two cars, although it is true that visually all cars look a bit alike. The Ferrari, the Haas and the Alfa Romeo are also very similar to each other, “explained Alonso, who pointed out that the most similar car is that of his old team:” I would say that the car closest to ours, to tell the truth, is the Alpinewith the pontoons, like this with those tunnels…”.

“All the teams they struggle with the budget cap, trying to improve here and thereone thing and the other, and when they see another that improves two seconds or a second, you have to look for where it is possible to improve”, continued Fernando Alonso, who pointed out the positive aspect of talking about AM23: “Somehow work done is being praised. But you have to be calm and we are curious to know if the same will happen here, because the fast corner and the straight were our weak points in Bahrain and it is what prevails here, and perhaps we can get a negative surprise. We have to wait and improve the car in all the weak points that we identify in these first races.”

Fernando Alonso exceeded all expectations that was on him and achieved a spectacular podium in the start of the World Cup of Formula 1 in this 2023. The Asturian barely needed a race in aston martin to achieve a Third place that a few months ago, when I was still with the Alpine team, it seemed unthinkable.