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Fernando Alonso believes F1's top four teams are "nearly
untouchable" for the remainder of the season before the rules
overhaul for 2026. At the halfway point of the 2025 campaign,
fourth-placed Red Bull has just under three times as many points
(172) as fifth-place Williams on 59, with Alonso's Aston Martin in
eighth position on 36 points. In the bottom half of the standings,
the field spread is much closer, with just 22 points separating
Stake in sixth on 41 points to Alpine in 10th on 19. Much of the
attention for all the teams has now switched to the huge package of
2026 rule changes, with Alonso declaring that upgrades will be few
and far between as teams do not want to divert resources away from
developing next year's package. As a result, the two-time champion
feels that McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull will remain
"untouchable" in the final 12 races. "The first four teams are
miles ahead of everyone else, so the top eight cars will be nearly
untouchable for the rest of the season," Alonso told the media,
including RacingNews365. "There will not be many upgrades for
anyone from now on, so we need something extra to happen, like in
Austria, where two of the top eight cars (Max Verstappen and Kimi
Antonelli) did not finish. "So that opens a possibility for a P6
or P7. We were lucky to be P7 [in Austria], but that is not the
norm, you are always fighting for P9, P10, which is already a good
weekend. "We know that [2026] is a good opportunity, not only for
Aston, but for many of the teams who want to become top teams.
"Next year is the reset on the rules, and we all want to be in that
position, where we can fight for bigger teams, so it is an
opportunity."