Alonso confirms Aston Martin commitment: 'Whether that's in F1 is a different question'

Earlier this Thursday, Mike Krack, Aston Martin's Chief Technical Officer, said that Fernando Alonso is 'too fast to retire from F1.' The Spaniard explained to GPblog, among others, that he feels the same way when asked about his future in the sport. Whether he will continue in Formula 1 will be decided during or after the summer break.

He began: "It doesn't change anything. I don't need Mike [Krack] to tell me that I'm fast. I feel it every lap of the day on track, and I've been feeling always that. Let's see, I have not taken any decision. I will wait until probably the summer break, which is August, and after break is Zandvoort, Monza. I think around that time I will probably decide what to do next year. I will keep racing because I'm feeling fast and I feel motivated and I love what I do. And I will not stop now, because I don't feel uncompetitive or I don't feel that I don't enjoy racing.

Alonso continued: "I'm committed to this team also, so even if I don't race, my commitment with the team and with the project is the same and still the same as what it has been for years now. We started this in a way together with some success in 2023. And with a lot of changes in the company and in the campus in Silverstone, now with the partnership with Honda, with Aramco, with the new fuels.

"There are a lot of things that we built together in a way, and as I said many times, this team is there is certain guarantees that it will succeed and will fight for world championships. We don't know if that will be next year, in three years' time, or in eight years' time. That's probably my limitation behind the wheel. But that I want to win a world championship with Aston Martin, with or without driving, that's still the same commitment in my case," he explained.

Recently, there were also rumours of Alonso re-joining Alpine, with many pointing to the Spaniard being spotted alongside Flavio Briatore as a sign that a return could be on the cards. That is, however, not unusual, as the Italian is Alonso's manager. There is a clear candidate to continue alongside Pierre Gasly: Franco Colapinto. The suggestion that Alonso would replace him should, at this stage, be dismissed as typical paddock speculation.

Alonso also confirmed that to be the case in Austria. "I mean there are always rumours you know and we've been very bad treated by the outside world. And it's normal. I mean, we are underperforming, we are in a bad moment, and when summer break comes, there are always rumors. There are rumors at the top teams. There are rumors also in our case because we are underperforming. But as I said, my commitment with Aston Martin is beyond my driving time.

The Spaniard concluded: "I believe in the project, I trust my team, and we are all in this together. Obviously, we take one of the hardest parts of the situation because we race every week and we face the media every week, and we jump in the car tomorrow, and we are very uncompetitive. But our team and our leaders took the decision in Australia to wait until it was worth making an upgraded package. For cost efficient and things like that. And we all agree on that. And we are all waiting on that and we wait in the best manner possible."