What must it be like to be in a car after doing everything you could without knowing whether or not. Whether it served to achieve the objective, or even more so the objective, or whether you did not succeed. That must have been the feeling Fernando Alonso In Japan, in the second quarter in Japan. At a time when it was unclear whether or not he would among the ten best on Saturday.

If I could fight for pole. Or rather, if I was going to be in the fight of others for the post. Because everything has changed Aston Martin. Because it went from a blink of an eye in Monaco to 1.5 seconds that Max Verstappen achieved in a single lap of the double champion’s AMR23.

But at least it was there. Was while his partner,Lance’s Walk, finished 17th in a ranking without Logan Sargeant. Yeah, Who knows if it would have been worse for the Canadian in a “qualification” in which, once again, Fernando had to fight completely alone.

“We are in, we are in”

Despite everything, and with an AMR23 which I couldn’t be more nervous, reached the third trimester not without suffering. There were thousandths separating him from the fall, and we had to wait for the last car, Pierre Gasly, to know if it was yes or if it was no.

The radio was more than enlightening: “Fernando, here we are. We are in. P10″his engineer told him.

“I had to wait until the last car”he commented in conclusion.

And Alonso responds

Alonso’s response couldn’t have been better: “Haha, it’s been the longest wait of my life!”

Now it’s timeand face Sunday. Career. The one in which the objective is to score the maximum possible points after the bath of reality which is offered to us. this part of the season.

The dream of 33 years seems to have faded totally…