Fernando Alonso feels that his entire career has been marked by the injustice of always being in weaker cars than his opponents.
A Spanish television station made a documentary with Alonso, in which the two-time world champion talked about how he had always been at a technical disadvantage. From a very early age, since childhood…
"I remember when I started karting as a kid, I only had one set of tires. It rained a lot in Asturias, so the other kids would put on rain tires, but I didn't because we didn't have the money for it."
This hasn't changed in Formula 1 either. Here I get the rain tires, but not, for example, the Ferrari wing or the McLaren floor plate. After all, this is what my whole life, my whole career has been about: I had to fight with blunter weapons and adapt better than everyone else... That hasn't changed, nor has my hunger for success.
"If I go out on a go-kart track now and see that the best are a second or a second and a half faster than me, I'm just as angry, just as frustrated as when I can't have dinner at night. I hate losing, it's what keeps me alive!" the Aston Martin star reflected.
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