Miami weather infuriates Fernando Alonso with Ferrari: "For them a luxury"

Friends once, enemies for years. Fernando Alonso is back to attacking Ferrari, with which he came close to the world championship in 2010 and 2012 only to leave it badly in late 2014 without ever rebuilding a good relationship with the Cavallino since then. And the theme doesn’t seem to have changed even now that the Spaniard is sailing at the bottom of the Formula 1 grid at the wheel of a completely misguided Aston Martin. But the knot of weather looming over the Miami Grand Prix has given the experienced Asturian an opportunity to return to the attack again.

“In the dry we have no chance to do well, probably not even in the wet. Then if it rains during the Miami Grand Prix, there is no telling what will happen. It would be the first time with these cars in adverse weather conditions. The only team that has the luxury of knowing how it will go is Ferrari, since they do unlimited testing with Pirelli. But we’re not Ferrari, so we’ll have to learn as the race goes on,” thundered Alonso at the end of qualifying in a vitriolic statement picked up by the Spaniards at ‘AS’.

The numbers, after all, speak for themselves and lend reason to the Spaniard’s bitterness at least as far as the premise of his analysis is concerned. In qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, Alonso set the 18th fastest time of 1’31″098, paying more than three seconds behind Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s pole position and finding himself overtaken even by teammate Lance Stroll, 17th. An abyss that tells better than any words the state of health of an Aston Martin that confirms itself as the great disappointment of this beginning of the 2026 season. The situation had already appeared dramatic in Friday’s sprint qualifying, when both AMR26s were not even officially classified, having set a time 107% higher than the best of the session.

Making the picture even more complicated at Aston Martin’s home is the figure of Adrian Newey, the genius engineer everyone wanted and who eventually chose the Silverstone team after his farewell to Red Bull. Expectations were sky high, but the reality turned out to be quite different: the AMR26 is not working, and Newey himself ended up in the crosshairs of criticism not only for the car’s performance, but also for his interlude in the role of team principal, judged by many insiders to be outside his comfort zone. “Having worked with Adrian for most of my career, I would never have imagined him as team principal. He has a great technical mindset, he’s a racing man and he knows how to solve problems from a technical point of view,” David Coulthard said on the ‘Up to Speed’ podcast, hinting that team management represents far more slippery ground for the British designer.

In this context, Alonso’s own future in Formula 1 remains shrouded in uncertainty. His contract with Aston Martin expires at the end of 2026 and the Spaniard, while still feeling physically and mentally competitive, said he has not yet made any decisions. “The truth is that I haven’t started thinking about the future yet. However, I know that at some point this year, around the summer or soon after, I will have to make a decision, but for now I have not yet started an internal reflection,” he explained to the microphones of ‘Marca’. Options on the table include a resounding farewell to racing with the Dakar as a possible next adventure. A choice that, in light of current results, seems less and less remote.

There is no shortage, meanwhile, of outside rumors about the Alonso case. His former teammate in Ferrari Felipe Massa, who shared the pit box with him between 2010 and 2013, frankly analyzed the situation of the two-time world champion: “I’m not sure he’s enjoying this season as much as he is, also because there are many problems for him. I don’t think Fernando is a driver who should be in F1 just to fight in the back.” Harsh words, but spoken with respect by someone who knows him well: “I like him very much as a driver, he was undoubtedly the best I have ever raced against.”