Fernando Alonso says he is "too radical" to sit on the Strategy Group and give a driver's opinion on matters within F1.
The GPDA launched a fan survey on Thursday aimed at allowing drivers to understand what fans want from the sport. Following a meeting of the Strategy Group last week, Alonso says there are signs the sport has been going in the wrong direction, but when asked if he could sit on the group he replied: "No! I’m too radical. You need some common sense there, eh?"
With a number of changes suggested following the meeting of the Strategy Group, Alonso says it shows the sport feels it needs to revert to how it was in the past.
"If the tests come back we will have similar rules to seven or eight years ago, which means the last four or five years we have been going in the wrong direction ... I think the grandstand tells us."
On the last time he felt challenged to the limit physically and mentally, Alonso replied: "I think 2005.
"In 2005 the cars were eight seconds quicker. In Malaysia this year the engineers made a calculation that the winner this year compared to the winner in 2006 was six laps slower – so he would have been lapped six times. When you are six or seven minutes in a race, or eight seconds per lap quicker than this year’s car that is very demanding physically and mentally and everything was pushed to the limit. This was maybe ten years ago."
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