Formula 1 should “analyse” why Fernando Alonso’s 2005-spec Renault aroused so much positive feedback when the Spaniard demonstrated it in Abu Dhabi last weekend. “We need to analyse the reasons that make that car so attractive to the public,” he is quoted by AS newspaper. “It’s a car from a time when polluting emissions did not matter and neither did electric mobility. “Now we are in another era and that means we have to make concessions, although it is undeniable that the R25 is spectacular,” Wolff added, referring to the car in which a then 24-year-old Alonso won his first title. “They were smaller cars, 150 kilos lighter and with a howling engine,” he said.

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