Fernando Alonso has issued his latest update on when he could retire from Formula 1, and what would have to happen to make him decide to quit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Aston Martin driver’s contract expires at the end of 2026, which will be his 23rd season in the pinnacle of motorsport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It has been a difficult couple of seasons for Alonso, who rapidly found himself back in the midfield fight after spending 2023 as a regular podium finisher.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No podiums have been claimed by the two-time champion in the last two campaigns, with the current season having been a frustrating one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aston Martin has openly applied maximum focus to next year’s new power unit regulations, which Adrian Newey has been working on at the outfit’s Silverstone base.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next year is a pivotal one for Alonso, as it will, ultimately, decide if he wants to continue beyond 2026 and into 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has openly acknowledged that 2025 has been a difficult season, but that he will continue to race as long as he feels “motivated and physically at the level” to race in F1.<\/p>\n
“Difficult to know your own performance \u2014 if it has changed somehow, if you are better or worse \u2014 as long as you don’t have a competitive car and environment that probably wakes up your feelings and your competitive spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That is a little bit not ready now, when you are not fighting for big things. But 2023 was a good example of that \u2014 when the car was up there in the podiums. So yeah, I have self-confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I have a lot of trust in the team that next year we can put things right and fight for something more important.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And, yeah, as long as I feel competitive and I feel fast, motivated and physically at the level, I will keep racing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has issued his latest update on when he could retire from Formula 1, and what would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-312488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}