Alonso: ‘No need for more overtaking’

Fernando Alonso has made the bold claim that F1 doesn’t need to make it easier to overtake from next season.

The new rules for next season, announced soon, hope to make F1 more exiting.

But Alonso doesn’t think overtaking is an area that they need to improve.

“China is an extreme case because the race was very confused because of the strategies, the safety car and everything that mixed it.

"But definitely nowadays it's very possible that the car that is running 16th or 17th can overtake a Mercedes out of the pitlane with newer tyres and pull away.

"That's difficult to explain to the people in front of the televisions.

"The overtaking is probably not as real as it was before. You don't need to be inspired by something or to choose the right moment in the right place.

"If it's not in this corner, you wait another corner and you will pass because they are five seconds slower.

"I don't think we need to put a finger on one thing to improve the show because when we were having those races with two or three overtaking moves we were asking for more overtaking to improve the show."

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