It has been a brutal start to the new F1 season for Fernando Alonso and everyone associated with Aston Martin.<\/p>\n
The hopes and aspirations under the new regulations after joining forces with power unit supplier Honda have been blown apart in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n
The Japanese manufacturer’s PU issues have resulted in Alonso suffering his worst start to a campaign in his 23rd season in F1, with two retirements in Australia and China, followed by an 18th-place finish in the last race in Japan.<\/p>\n
Alonso’s bid to secure an elusive 33rd grand prix victory, with his previous win now 13 years ago, seems further away than ever for the two-time champion.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt, that at the age of 44, Alonso has lost none of his speed and talent, and you have to believe that in a far more competitive car, he would be producing performances and results worthy of his experience.<\/p>\n
You have to bear in mind, however, that the Spanish driver has recently become a father, and he may feel that with the advance of time, he should devote his energy away from the race track.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So if Aston Martin fails to force its way back into the fray this campaign, should Alonso finally call it a day? That is the question we are posing in our latest RacingNews365 poll.<\/p>\n
So have your say in the poll below, and make sure you leave a considered comment as we will give you a mention when we write the results follow-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a brutal start to the new F1 season for Fernando Alonso and everyone associated with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-590616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}