Pressure Mounts on Lawrence Stroll & Co. as F1 CEO Points Out the Missing Puzzle in Fernando Alonso’s Plan: “The Desire Is for Him to Have a…”

Stefano Domenicali was recently spotted at the Basque Pelota exhibition at the Labrit Fronton in Pamplona. There the F1 president talked about some of the hot topics of F1, in which one of the subjects was Fernando Alonso’s addition to the Aston Martin. In response, the Italian said that the two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is ‘super motivated.’

After this year’s Hungarian Grand Prix Fernando Alonso announced that he will part ways with Alpine in order to start a new journey with the Silverstone-based team, Aston Martin. The blistering speed, brilliant tactical thinking, razor-sharp eye, and constant determination to win characterise Fernando Alonso’s performance throughout the course of his F1 journey.

F1 president says Fernando Alonso is Super Motivated

That being said, the two-time world champion is more than fit and is super motivated to start his new journey. The Addition of a double champion will mount pressure on Lawrence Stroll to make the necessary arrangement as soon as possible. With all this when quizzed about Fernando Alonso, Stefano Domenicali said, “The important thing is for Fernando to continue in F1. He has also shown this year that age doesn’t matter. He is a very competitive driver, very smart and professional.” (Translated using Google)

Praising the Spanish driver, the F1 president said, “It does not surprise me at all because Fernando has F1 in his blood, he always finds motivation. Even when he left he wanted to go back. He deserves his place. The desire is for him to have a competitive car, because if he does, he will be at the front.”

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Going through a difficult tenure at the helm of the Maranello-based team, Domenicali might know how difficult it is to be a team boss of a big team like Ferrari. And now when Mattia Binotto is parting ways with Scuderia after 28 years, Domenicali wishes him good luck.

Stefano Domenicali wishes Mattia Binotto for his future

So it’s confirmed that the Italian Engineer is going to cut his ties with the Maranello-based outfit at the end of this year. During his tenure as team principal, Ferrari won just 7 of 82 Grand Prix and finished twice as the runner-up in the constructor’s championship.

The team had devastating 2 years (2020-2021) where the Prancing Horses didn’t even win a single race, and this year recorded more issues in the form of strategic errors and reliability failures. As of now, Scuderia has accepted the resignation of Mattia Binotto. Amidst this news, Domenicali, who was the team boss of Scuderia during 2008-2014 wished Binotto good luck.

Talking to Marca, Domenicali said, ” Because of the position I have, I can’t really say anything, nothing more than to wish Mattia Binotto luck in his future. Besides the F1 president hopes that Binotto’s replacement can carry on the good work started by the Italian engineer, “And Ferrari to find the person who can continue on the path that began this year, which was reaffirmed by finishing in second place in the World Championship,” said F1 CEO.

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