Fernando Alonso: “Need to work”

The duel between Ferrari and Red Bull, perhaps arbitrated by McLaren, is taking shape. Red Bull distrusts Ferrari, Ferrari distrusts Red Bull? For his part, Fernando Alonso gives the advantage to the team Milton Keynes, who spent all day Friday at the forefront. “ I hope we can stay close to our main opponents, who looked very strong today, confides Fernando Alonso. I hope we can fight with them in Q3 tomorrow afternoon. For the moment, we are ahead by a few tenths, although we will not know the truth until Saturday. »

But the double World Champion believes that the Scuderia still has room for improvement before entering qualifying in Budapest. “ We need to work on the settings of the car to improve its performanceormances, especially in sectors 2 and 3. In comparison with Hockenheim, where our car was well balanced, we suffer from understeer here. But otherwise, everything else is good. » As within the Red Bull team, the native of Oviedo explains that Ferrari concluded that the F-duct was counter-productive. “ We did some aerodynamic testing and ultimately it looks like the car is more competitive without the blown rear wing. »