Aston Martin started the season because the shock second-best workforce to Crimson Bull with Alonso scoring six podium finishes throughout the opening eight weekends of the 12 months, together with second-place ends in Monaco and Canada.
Nonetheless, as rival groups have launched upgrades at current grands prix, Aston Martin has fallen down the pecking order, with Mercedes and McLaren leapfrogging the Silverstone-based outfit.
Regardless of this, when requested how he displays on the season thus far, Alonso responded: “Unimaginable.
“[It has been] a dream first half of the season. We’re P3 within the constructors’ championship in entrance of Ferrari, we’re P3 within the drivers’ championship along with Lewis.
“It was unattainable to assume this fashion in Bahrain.”
Talking solely to Autosport forward of the summer season shutdown, workforce principal Mike Krack hailed the “open and transparent” relationship between workforce and driver.
When Alonso’s Aston Martin transfer was introduced, it triggered eyebrows to be raised given the stark distinction in on-track efficiency in comparison with his then-employers Alpine.
Assessing the success of his winter change given the present turmoil at Alpine, Alonso added: “You understand, it might be good to have a crystal ball and earlier than you decide in switching groups the longer term.
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin F1 Crew, 2nd place, celebrates on the rostrum along with his trophy
Photograph by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
“However yeah, , ultimately, I am completely satisfied the place I’m, and there’s a undertaking right here into the longer term and I am very proud.”
Whereas the favored perception is {that a} driver loses their edge with age, Alonso, 42, continues to buck this development.
However pointing to the current return of Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri, Alonso acknowledged that youth isn’t all the pieces in trendy F1.
“It [my age] was the theme all by way of the 12 months,” joked the Spaniard.
“However no, I believe folks already noticed that , it is not an enormous change if you’re 41 or if you’re 25.
“It is extra in your head, within the motivation, the way you strategy the weekend. And yeah, races like immediately or the celebrities of immediately, or perhaps a few examples, , in different groups – they wager extra on expertise. Like Daniel now in AlphaTauri and issues like that. So it is not about youth, it is nearly going quick.”