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Alonso disgusted with new format: 'Don't think F1 wants this either'
Max Verstappen called it 'bad' and Fernando Alonso thinks it is terrible. The new F1 tyre format is not to the drivers' liking. The Spaniard will start from P8 in tomorrow's race. Alonso looks back on, for Aston Martin, a standard qualifying result, but balks at the tyres.
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Alonso grabbed starting spot eight for Sunday's Hungary GP race. We sometimes see the Spaniard further up front, but the competition was so closely matched that Alonso is not worried. Speaking to DAZN ES, the Aston Martin driver said: "The qualifying was very tight and we're four tenths off pole, which is more or less our normal distance, so we're fine on that side. By one tenth I think we were fourth."
The Spaniard is less satisfied with the choice of tyres prescribed for the whole weekend and for qualifying in particular. "Horrible. For me it's horrible. I don't think it has added much today in the time trial. People want to see a qualifying where we all try to go as fast as possible. Q1, Q2 and Q3 we tried to make progress during the sessions, but the bad thing about this format is that we had no tyres to practice on. All the free practices have been a continuous tyre saving in order to get to the time trial with fresh sets of tyres. I think that if you pay an entry fee of 300, 400, 500 euros, these barbarities and we can't go out because we are reserving tyres."
Alonso concluded, "I don't think that's what Formula 1 wants. But well, you have to try it and if I had an opinion, I wouldn't vote for this format."