'Maybe we’ve lost 70 points, I guess, 60 points, if we count all the retirements, bad luck, and reliability. So it's a very strange season' F1
, before a water pump issue ended his hopes of a top-six finish at the next race in Saudi Arabia.
From the back of the grid, Alonso salvaged points in his home race in Spain, before going on to make it three consecutive top-10 appearances with P7 in Monaco and Azerbaijan.Alonso secured a stunning second on the grid during a wet qualifying in Canada, but poor timing of two Virtual Safety Cars and a power unit issue meant he limped home in seventh. Alonso picked up a post-race penalty for weaving on the straights that demoted him to P9.before more misfortune hit Alonso in Austria.
“For people who don’t look at the races or the weekend in general and just look at the standings, they get the wrong impressions for sure with this season, because I feel it has been outstanding for #14 crew but very unlucky.”, Alonso added: “Reliability has been good, Esteban’s car is always good.”But speaking to Spanish publication AS, Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer dismissed the idea that Alonso has been let down by the team.
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