Fernando Alonso feels that throughout his career he has suffered the injustice of always sitting in weaker cars than his rivals.
Spanish television made a documentary with Alonso, in which the two-time world champion spoke about how he was always at a disadvantage technically. From a very young age, from childhood…
“I remember when I started karting as a kid, I always had one pair of tires. In Asturias it rained a lot, and other kids would put on rain tires, but I couldn’t because we couldn’t afford them.
That hasn’t changed in Formula 1. Here I already get rain tires, but not, for example, a Ferrari wing or a McLaren floor. After all, that’s what my whole life, my whole career, has been about: having to fight with blunt weapons and adapt better than everyone else… That hasn’t changed, and neither has my will to succeed.
If I go out on a go-kart track now and I see that the best are one or one and a half seconds faster than me, I am as angry, as frustrated as when I can't eat my dinner. I hate losing, it drives me on!" mused the Aston Martin star.
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