{"id":21478,"date":"2024-02-23T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-1-grid-already-thinks-title-is-verstappens-alonso\/23\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:28:50","slug":"formula-1-grid-already-thinks-title-is-verstappens-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-1-grid-already-thinks-title-is-verstappens-alonso\/23\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 grid already thinks title is Verstappen&#8217;s &#8211; Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BAHRAIN &#8212; Max Verstappen&#8217;s rivals already know he will be world champion in 2024 according to Fernando Alonso, who said Red Bull&#8217;s current superiority perfectly sums up the &#8220;brutal&#8221; nature of Formula One.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen won a record 18 grand prix victories in 2023 to claim a third straight championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/34296466\/unlapped-how-listen-watch-espn-new-f1-show-episode-archive-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Unlapped: How to listen or watch ESPN&#8217;s new F1 show, episode archive, and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, Red Bull won 21 out of 22 races<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39576589\/ferrari-fastest-red-bull-look-ominous-preseason-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">, and the consensus at preseason testing<\/a> is they have taken another step forward with their new car.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is perhaps one of the great examples of how F1 operates in eras and how drivers must both have the talent to win a title and find themselves in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso won the championship in 2005 and 2006 and is considered one of the best drivers on the grid, but his last grand prix win came in 2013.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0223%2Fr1294995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0223%2Fr1294995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0223%2Fr1294995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0223%2Fr1294995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Fernando Alonso thinks most drivers have already conceded defeat.\u00a0<cite>Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have a crystal ball to know what the others are doing,&#8221; Alonso said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Max is the world champion and Red Bull is dominating the sport. Also, the concept that they presented this year, it&#8217;s also a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, we just have to watch them and see how they perform. I think 19 drivers in the paddock now will think that [they] will not win the championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It happens 99% of the time in your career. This is a brutal sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, reigning world champion Max Verstappen said his new Red Bull car has taken a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39582698\/red-bull-car-even-faster-2024-max-verstappen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> clear step forward from last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final day of testing should give an indication of how far ahead Red Bull are &#8212; estimates by rival teams in the paddock place the advantage around half a second per lap, a considerable margin in modern F1<\/p>\n<p>Before Red Bull&#8217;s streak, Lewis Hamilton won six championships with Mercedes between 2014 and 2020, with former teammate Nico Rosberg winning the other in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull had dominated the era before that, with Sebastian Vettel winning four straight championships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39583387\/formula-1-already-thinks-title-red-bull-verstappen-alonso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAHRAIN &mdash; Max Verstappen&rsquo;s rivals already know he will be world champion in 2024 according to Fernando Alonso, who said Red Bull&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/formula-1-grid-already-thinks-title-is-verstappens-alonso\/23\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[4499,435,2084,5244,113,719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21480,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions\/21480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}