Juan Pablo Montoya believes Fernando Alonso faces an enormous danger if he chooses to go away Aston Martin, warning that the two-time Formulation 1 champion might reside to remorse strolling away simply because the staff’s huge investments start to come back by way of in efficiency.
Throughout an look on the F1 TV Weekend Heat-up present forward of the Austrian Grand Prix, Montoya weighed in on Alonso’s future following a torrid begin to the 2026 season with the Silverstone outfit.
The Spanish driver has been open about contemplating retirement within the not-too-distant future, though he has not confirmed something at this stage. Along with a attainable retirement, there have additionally been rumours linking the 44-year-old to a return to Alpine.
“The laborious factor for Fernando is, what do you do? It is not possible to know one of the best state of affairs for the longer term, however all of us thought this yr was going to be the supply, and it wasn’t,” Montoya defined.
“So what do you do? You might have one, two extra years left in F1, do you stick to them? You are in a cushty place. They such as you. They know you, they usually have the instruments to construct a extremely successful automobile. So you probably have every part to do this, would you danger going some other place and go, ‘Oh, I ought to have stayed’?
“And that is the laborious actuality for a driver: when you decide of going some other place, there’s by no means a assure about the place you are going.”
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing
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He added: “You might have Adrian Newey designing the automobile, who is among the finest designers, if not one of the best right here. You might have Honda, which has received championships. You might have every part. You might have the brand new manufacturing facility. You might have all of the instruments to ship.
“However then you may go, OK, for example he goes, and you set him again with [Flavio] Briatore right here and it is the gorgeous reunion, and they’ll run respectable as a result of they’re working actually respectable, and you then depart that place [Aston Martin] they usually get it proper they usually’re successful each week and also you look again at it and also you go, ‘Oh my god, I had that in my palms.'”
After the primary seven rounds of the 2026 season, Alonso sits 18th within the drivers’ championship with one level.
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