Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin had an incredible qualifying on Saturday. Alonso qualified in fifth place but was unable to remain in the top 10 during the race.
After the race, Alonso said, “Yeah, I mean, the car was very strong today. We started strong, and then I could follow Norris and Russell. Actually, Russell was a little bit slower than both of us.”
'Not in Aston Martin's favour'
He admitted, “I have to pinch myself that I was in the front part of the field and that competitive.”
“Then we did stop, we were okay to secure P6, P7 today with both cars, and then the vehicle safety car obviously gave the opportunity to stop for free for the people that didn't at that point.”
How did Alonso's race fall apart?
“They [the cars ahead] leave the pits just in front of us already with newer tires, and the race was over.”
Alonso continued, “In 100 scenarios of the race, 99 were okay for us to score strong points for the team today, one was not, and it did happen."
"Let's hope for other races that maybe we don't deserve the points and we do score because of luck so yeah but today it's a little bit unfair.”
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