Fernando Alonso: P2 was possible even with “completely destroyed” floor

Alonso suffered an off at the final corner during the earlꩲy stages of Q🐟1.
He sustained some significant floor damage as a result, leaving Aston Martin trying 🅘toꦿ fix it during the remainder of qualifying.
Alonso went on to qualify only ninth - his worst result of the season as he was out-qualified by teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lance Stroll for the first time in F1 2023.
Speaking after the session, Alonso revealed - like 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton - he made a mistake at Turn 10 which cost him a shot at qualifying second behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
“In the Q3 lap I was coming for 1m12.7s, until Turn 10, that again I ran wide into the damp part on the outside,”🥂 Alonso explained.
“So when I saw now that 1m12🌼.7s is P2 and P3, I was surprised.
“Th🎶at’s why I’m optimistic for tomorrow because the✤ car seems to have a lot of pace.”
Reflecting on his Q1 error, he explained: “Q1 probably did compromise everything today. I did a mistake, I went on the damp part of the circuit, I guess, in the last corner because I lost the car, and then it was very costly because that gravel completely destroyไed the floor.
“And yeah, it hurts even more because it’s the out-lap, I wasn’t even pushing. It was notꦉ a push lap, it was the out-lap.
“So, yeah, disappointed with my performance today🌊. Hopefully I can do a better Sun🅷day.”
It was an un🍬usual qualifying session in Spain as Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes all had just one car in the final shootout for pole.

Alonso descri꧑bed Saturday at Barcelꦿona as “strange”.
“It 🥂was a strange qualifying – to see [Charles] Leclerc out of Q1, [Sergio] Perez, [George] R🔜ussell out of Q2, we were struggling as well,” he added.
“So🏅, I think it was tricky for everyone but in my case it was just my mistake, in the out-lap of Q1, th𝄹at compromises everything.
“But the race is tomorrow, th🃏e car still felt compe꧒titive even with some damage on the floor.”

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