Fernando Alonso Undoubtedly, he had a great disappointment afterwards.”a bad weekend” In front of the Spanish fans. If their worst result so far was fourth place in Baku, it’s certainly not ideal to take seventh at home and break their podium streak, but The Asturian admitted that “we have no rhythm for more”.
As a result, Alonso wants to quickly turn the page and is already considering what he plans to include in Canada in two weeks: “We didn’t have as much rhythm as other Sundays, neither soft nor soft.” hard rubber, did we have that tenth to be with Mercedes? We’re a little further down Alpine from Alpha Tauri. And maybe it’s on par with Ferrari,” he said.
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“Lance Stroll retains the lead between Carlos Sainz and the first race‘. That’s why we couldn’t catch the same rhythm as Red Bull, we finished half a minute behind them, but it was Mercedes that made the biggest change in rhythm”, Fernando analyzed at the bottom of the track.
Regarding Mercedes’ move with Hamilton and Sainz taking the podium at Barcelona, Alonso said: “They added more than us and are ahead in the constructors’ championship, but we got points from Ferrari. So I’m happy for one side. More in Canada. We’ll take things and crush them,” he joked.
“I’m happy because qualifying was the Achilles heel of the weekend. After starting so far back I was able to come back but up to a certain point. I think we would have had a better chance this sunday with a regular qualifier, but both Russell and Checo were faster, so there wasn’t much to do. “We saved the points and now we have to look forward and keep working,” said Alonso.
“It was not an easy race”
He didn’t attack the sixth Stroll in the end: “It was tough but we don’t care because it’s the same points for the team. Lance is running a ‘best’ race and we got more points than Ferrari”. On passing Ocon: “There’s enough straights, nothing happened. this time we won’t touch (she made a joke). all good. It hasn’t been an easy race from the start and the disruption we don’t know if it’s two or three stops. We ended up in two, but more than anything there was a lack of rhythm. This is normal”.
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In any case, he seems to have stepped back from five podiums in his six races so far. It doesn’t matter, the reason was Saturday (and lack of evolution). or fourth. We weren’t ready for the podium in Miami, but we qualified for the front row and you’re securing the podium.. Also in Monaco. We saved many podiums with a very good Saturday, we had a very bad Saturday here, but I am happy and calm.”