“I'm very demanding in everything that I do,” he said at the launch of Aston Martin’s new car, the AMR23, earlier this week. “I give my 100%, and expect the same of the people that I work with.”
It’s an obsession for the best that has fuelled frustration in the past and even caused relationships within teams to snap. Alonso was open last year in his belief he was performing at his best level since 2012, when he came so close to the title in a sub-par Ferrari, only for Alpine’s reliability struggles to cost him a sizeable haul of points.
