Should Formula 1 pay the See Payment to drivers who bring American talent to other teams?Fernando Alonso joked that it should be so.
Addressing the media after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Alonso came under pressure that he had brought Andrea Stella to the McLaren team decades, and advised him to laugh that he gave a bonus for a bonus
Additional reporting by Thomas Maher
The 2024 Formula 1 season hasn’t been an easy one for Aston Martin. The team took home fifth in the World Constructors’ Standings with a total of 94 points — with fourth-placed Mercedes taking 468.
The promise of the team’s strong functionality at the start of 2023 faded, as drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll battled to finish in the top 10.
But veteran drivers like Alonso have close links in the F1 network due to their long races. This means that he has worked with innumerable groups, engineers, managers and much more, one of the groups is McLaren.
In statements to the media, adding Planetf1. com, after the Grande prize of Abu Dhabi, Alonso took a moment for the evolution of McLaren’s fortune, and also received some credits for it.
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Alonso spent five years of his 21-year racing career with McLaren, in 2007 and then between 2015 and 2018. During this new outing with the Woking team, Alonso met McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown, who took charge of the team. this period.
It was thanks to Brown that Alonso was able to skip Monaco in order to compete in the Indianapolis 500, and the two have remained close ever since. As such, a congratulations was in order.
“I think Zak is my very friend,” Alonso told the media.
“We will spend a few days together in the coming weeks and have a laugh on the track. We actually rented a track.
“So, you know, I’m friends with Zak. “
But Brown is rarely his only friend in McLaren. Between 2010 and 2014, Andrea’s racing engineer Stella Alonso, and when Alonso moved to McLaren in 2015, Stella accepted a role in the same team as the head of racial operations.
Her determination to the Papaya team saw Stella rise through the ranks of the team principal, a move she well rewarded this year with a constructors’ world championship.
“I am a very friend of Andrea,” Alonso added to the media after Abu Dhabi.
“You know, in a way, I brought him to McLaren when I joined McLaren, so I told him, before the race what Abu Dhabi took from our hands in 2010, hopefully today it gives something back to you, and it did.
“Happy for him, he deserved it. He’s a very clever guy.
“And as I said, McLaren is prepared for many things now. “
A on -site journalist asked if Alonso attributed the merit of the victory of the McLaren team in COE, and the Spanish hesitated.
“Yes,” Alonso said of Stella. I am a component of your bonus. “
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