Formula 1: Fernando Alonso and Sainz's options in the Spanish Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz will be the Spanish assets in Barcelona. Without a doubt, a very special date for both of them that comes at a good time. And it is that Fernando Alonso, who could not finish the first race in Bahrain, has scored both in Imola and in Portimao, for which he arrives in an ascending progression to the Spanish Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz, for his part, does so wanting to make up for himself after being eleventh in the last race, yet Carlos Sainz was eighth in Bahrain and fifth in Imola. In Portimao, for his part, he qualified fifth, for the first time ahead of Leclerc, his teammate. However, his career was hampered by a poor choice of tires, precisely the goal that Fernando Alonso has set for the Spanish Grand Prix is to improve in the classification. And it is that up to two occasions the Asturian has been left out of Q3. At Imola he came out fifteenth and finished tenth; while in Portimao he started thirteenth and finished eighth. Alonso’s goal in the Spanish GP “We will try to qualify better in the next races, especially in Spain and Monaco, which are going to overtake very badly. I am looking forward to arriving in Barcelona. We did not do preseason in Barcelona this year so it will be riding there for the first time with these cars and it is going to be a challenge. The chrono, which has been regular in the last races, both in Barcelona and in Monaco is going to be the most important thing of the weekend, so I have to put the batteries in that aspect and I will try to improve “, said Fernando Alonso after the Gran Portugal Prize. Despite how difficult it will be to overtake at Montmeló, and despite the characteristics of the track being much less favorable for Alpine, Alonso is confident that his knowledge of the track will allow him to score points again.“It is always special to race at home and I have great memories of Barcelona. It is a circuit that we all know well, it is challenging, full of fast corners. Hopefully it will be a positive weekend, in which we add more points, “he added. Sainz’s goal” You know what I like about the Spanish Grand Prix, the Barcelona circuit. I’ve always been good at it, I think it’s one of the circuits where I’ve got the most points in my sporting career in Formula 1, so the objective is to continue maintaining that good statistic and that good grade, ”declared the Madrid-born in an event of Estrella Galicia. Carlos Sainz also spoke about the changes to the track: “There are changes in the circuit, they have changed Turn 10, which may change a bit what we have seen in the past. On Friday we will have to draw more conclusions, analyze the data well, analyze well how the circuit has changed and how the degradation has changed and see what kind of race awaits us. ”Finally, on the strategy, he commented:“ No I would rule out a race at more than one stop, with some overtaking, as we have seen in previous years. These last two years there have been more overtakings than in other years. I think it can be an interesting Grand Prix, a race that we can all enjoy both from home and on the circuit. ”Alpine arrives in Barcelona with improvements Marcin Budkowski has acknowledged that Alpine will face the Spanish Grand Prix with improvements in his car:“ We have small things that come after some successful tests in Portimao, where we improved some specific areas of the car. There is more to come and overall, we will continue to bring performance improvements to the car in the upcoming races, before completely shifting our focus to 2022. ”“After a fairly strong race in which we showed a good pace and managed to score points with both cars, we want to build on this good momentum. Barcelona, historically, has not been one of our strongest tracks, but neither was Portugal last year. Our goal is to confirm our progress by putting both cars in Q3 and score more points ”, added the executive director of the team. As far as Ferrari is concerned, it will not bring to Spain the soil it tested in Portugal. This soil was not intended for production, although it is not ruled out that it is part of a future evolution. What the Italian team will try to correct is its excessive tire degradation, which was what weighed on Carlos Sainz in the last race.