Fernando Alonso has insisted that his participation in the 2027 F1 campaign will not depend on Aston Martin’s highly anticipated upgrade set to debut this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Aston Martin has endured a painful season thus far, languishing towards the rear of the field with a car that has not been drip-fed upgrades like rival squads.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Instead, it has opted to bring a substantial upgrade in one go, which will break cover at the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It comes at a time when Alonso is mulling over his future, having long declared that he will make a call over the upcoming summer break.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When asked how important the performance of the upgrades will be for his decision, Alonso told media including RacingNews365: \u201cNothing.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing because my decision is not about the performance of this year. This year we started on the wrong foot.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot base my decision for next year on a performance that is not realistic.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not the true potential of the team. It’s much higher than what we see.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alonso has outlined that his decision will be based on the future of the regulations, having raised concerns over the enjoyment of driving the new cars.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The FIA has already confirmed that there will be a tweak to the rules next year, with a move away from the 50\/50 split between the combustion engine and the battery and an increase in output for the former element.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cMy decision for next year is more about the rules,\u201d\u00a0Alonso added.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cDriving these cars in places like Spa or Silverstone last race is not what I’m dreaming of for my future. So we’ll see.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has insisted that his participation in the 2027 F1 campaign will not depend on Aston Martin’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812463,"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-812462","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\/812462","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=812462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}