Fernando Alonso’s “it’s going to be painful here” prediction at F1 Spanish GP
Fernando Alonso reacts to qualifying🌳 behind both Aꦉlpines

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso insists that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aston Martin are exper𝐆iencing “tough times” after below-par qualifying at his home race.
Alonso qualified for the F1 Spanish Grand Prix in 11th (he will start from 10th🎀☂ due to Sergio Perez’s grid penalty).
Teammate Lance S🌠troll was 14th𒅌 on a rough day for Aston Martin.
Notably, both Alpines qualified in front of boꦯth Aston Martins.
Alonso was asked if the sight of his former team ahead was a worry▨, and responded: “No I think 🍬we knew.
“Alpine was in front of us in Monaco, wa🍸s very close in Canada, here they are just half a tenth in front so they are getting better and we are getting worse probably!
“So a combination of the tw𝐆o is not great. But you know I think many times we have some things in the pipeline that should put us back in the right direction.
“It’s going to be painful here, it’s going to be♛ painful in Austria, in Silverstone✱.
“We have to keep scoring points if it’s eighth, if it’s seventh, ninth, whatever, we canꦰnot give up and stay positive in these tough tim🍨es.”
Aston 𝕴Martin were the breakthrough tea🐻m at the start of last season, with Alonso’s podium in Bahrain.
But Ferrari, McLaren and more ꦉ𝄹recently Mercedes have established themselves as Red Bull’s closest challengers now.
Alonso was asked when Aston Martin’s pain will end: “Hopefully before summer break. But I ꦇthink there is a lot of understanding in the team about👍 what went right, what went wrong.
“Not only this year, I think the second part of last year and t🐻his year, I think as all the teams we are getting more and more extreme with development.
“The cars are more critical to drive, but now we understood a few ideas that wꦛill bring performance.”
Alonso detailed his Saturday in Barcelona: “We knew that it would be very tight in this type 🅰of circuit.
“Austria will be extreme, as💃 if you’re running 1:04s it will be even tighter, so yeah I think I’m happy with the result, even if it is painful to say i🍷n front of the home grandstands.
“Bu🤪t before qualifying our predictions were a little bit more pessimistic, even with one car we opted to go w🦩ith three sets in Q1 which is a sign that you are not very confident.
“All in all to start 🔯P10 with Checo’s penalty is a good result and hopefully tomorrow we are ju♏st one position away from the points let’s see.”
Will A♌lonso bring a different set-up for Sunday’s race?
“We’ve been testing a few different set-ups, these long cor💧ners and these cars they all behave differently.
“I think our car was behaving very differently in Bahrain and after the first packages we introduced we changed a little bit the characteristics of the car so we can mitigate a little bit ♔with ♌the set-ups.
“We are understanding more and more, ♊but when you understand t🍸he package, the next one is coming and it resets everything.
“As I said now I think we ha💖ve a plan, let’s see if it contributes to a better ♓result, but we are more confident than we have been in the previous months.
“I think it’s more understan🌊ding about the car, we cannot forget last year was the first car that this new technical team was design♒ing.
“We’ve been trying to add perfor💞mance to the car, sometimes we didn’t add much and made the car a bit more tricky and difficult to drive.
“They’ve been working for one year and a half𝕴 together, and everything is g𝓰rowing still at the top level, and it’s a strong position into the future.
“So I’m very relaxed, but the present is what matters in racing and today th🐟e present is Barcelona and it’s obviously painful but I’m relaxed about the performance.”

James was a sports journalist at🧸 Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.