Fernando Alonso is anticipating he will be able to make use of energy management and deployed to frustrate rival cars in battle this year.<\/p>\n
The F1 power units are undergoing a significant change this year, with the electrical output being boosted to match the combustion engines.<\/p>\n
How the drivers use the unit to extract pace is set to be vastly different from what the drivers have experienced in the past.<\/p>\n
Last year, overtaking proved to be difficult for many drivers due to how difficult the cars were to follow through corners, as well as their competitiveness relative to their rivals.<\/p>\n
Alonso hinted a similar situation could arise in 2026 as drivers make use of their new tools.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always can play a little bit with the tools you have in your hands,\u201d Alonso told media including RacingNews365<\/p>\n
\u201cLately, because the cars were more difficult to follow, if you\u2019re qualifying well, you can keep cars behind even if you don\u2019t have pace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to be five seconds margin. Like this, I stop and I don\u2019t have any cars behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I cannot pull away from cars. You use your experience in different ways, in different corners, to make sure that you are not overtaken.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo next year, it could be the same thing with the energy deployment, that you can use it here and there and have unexpected results.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, as Aston Martin hope to take a sizeable step forward at the start of the sport’s new era, Alonso declared he will take little satisfaction from finishing in the midfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you cannot be proud to finish 7th or 6th by using your brain 200%,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI prefer not using my brain and win all the races with 20 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso is anticipating he will be able to make use of energy management and deployed to frustrate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399716,"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":{"0":"post-400879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400879","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=400879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}