Alonso Comments On F1's Neglected Problem: 'Hopefully Someone Will Listen'

"It will be good to see a little bit more testing happening and there are a couple of the big teams that they can afford to run an old car and set a programme like maybe for F2 drivers."

"[Kimi] Antonelli, I read that he will do a program this season. Some big teams, they can afford that but [it's] still not proper preparation and testing. This is the way the sport is at the moment and we have so many races and the teams."

"They [teams] are so stressed already with the budget cap and all the personnel that travel and around the world for these 24 races that I think it is quite impossible to set up a test team like in the past to really prepare a young driver."

"And we don't even have winter testing, even if you put a rookie on your car, he will have one day and a half before starting a world championship. So that probably stops some of the team bosses to really promote a young driver."

"There are many things wrong in the sport and we raise [our] voice sometimes. But hopefully someone [will] listen."