Fernando Alonso feels that throughout his entire career he has been accompanied by injustice, in that he has always driven weaker cars than his competitors.
A Spanish television made a documentary with Alonso, where the two-time world champion talked about how he has always been at a technical disadvantage. From a very early age, since his childhood...
“I remember when I started karting as a child, I only had one set of tires. In Asturias, it rained very often, and the other kids would put on rain tires, but I couldn't because we didn't have the money for that.
This hasn't changed in Formula 1 either. Here, I do get the rain tires, but for example, I don't get the Ferrari wing or the McLaren floor. After all, this has been the story of my whole life, my entire career: I had to fight with duller weapons and adapt more than everyone else... This hasn't changed, just like my hunger for success.”
If I go out to a karting track nowadays and see that the best are one or one and a half seconds faster than me, I will be just as angry, just as frustrated as when I can't have dinner in the evening. I hate losing, it keeps me alive!” - reflected the star of Aston Martin.
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