The two-time world champion has been oꦉutclassed by teammate Esteban Ocon across the ope♐ning four races of the 2021 season while he continues to get up to speed at Alpine in his comeback year.

Alpine’s rece☂nt progress helped Alonso record his second Q3 appearance of the season at his home grand prix in Barcelona beꦬfore he faded in the race when a strategy gamble backfired.

While he is confident Alpine will be fast in Monaco, Alonso knows he will need to overcome a weakness that has hampered him so far this campaign if he is to g𝕴et the most out 🔜of the weekend.

"I think the ca🐲r will be fast in Monaco,” Alonso said. “I feel good about the🔥 performance there.

“One of the things that I need to get better for sure is to extract the maximum of the car in one lap, and when you 𝓡push the car having the confidence of what the car is do☂ing. “I’m not 100% on that at the moment.

“In Monaco, it is crucial that I get the maximum out of the car on Saturday. So I remain a little more cautious because of my own work than my own ca🎉r.

“Let’s say I feel confident in the car𒀰, now I need to work myself to be comfortable on that side as well. It is up 🅺to me, so let’s try.”

Alpine made a step forward when it introduced an upgrade package in Portugal and its continued strong performance in Spain gave𝄹 the French squad a better idea of where it stands relative to its nearest competitors.

“I th💎ink we had some good answers on some of the performance of the car and performance of the competitors,” Alonso explained.

“I was more or less comfortable. We have more pace in qualifying than the race. I think the racing was even tighter than qualifying as it seꦫems things were very, very similar on the performance of the other cars.”