Fernando Alonso’s “it’s going to be painful here” prediction at F1 Spanish GP
Fernando Alonso reacts to qualifying beh🤪ind both Alpines

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 experiencing “tough times” after belo💧w-par quali𓃲fying 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 Stroll was 14th on a rough day for Aston🥀 Martin.
Notably, both Alpines qualified in fr🔴ont of both Aston Marti𒈔ns.
Alonso was asked if the sight of his former team ahead was a worry, and responded:꧒ “No I think we knew.
“Alಌpine was in front of us in Monaco, was 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 ♍two 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 p💖ainful𝓰 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 can🅘not giv🌳e up and stay positive in these tough times.”
Aston Martin were the breakthrough team at the start of 🌌last season, with Alonso’s podium๊ in Bahrain.
But Ferrari, McLaren and more recently Mercedes have est🦩ablished themselves as Red Bull’s closest chalꦓlengers now.
Alonso was asked when Aston Martin’s pain will end: “Hopefully before summer break. But I think there is a lot of understanding in the team about what wen♔t right, what went wrong.
“Not only this year, I think the second 🌄part of last year and this year, I thi✱nk 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 will bring performance.”
Alonso detailed his Satﷺurday 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 in fr🌳ont of the home grandstands.
“But before qualifyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚing our predictions were a little bit more pessimistic, even with one car we opted to go with 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 just one position away from the points let’s see.”
Will Alo♛nso bring a different set-up for Sunday’s race?
“We’ve been testing a few different set-ups, these long corners and these cars they all beꦛhave differently.
“I thin꧅k 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.
“We𝔉 are understanding more and more, but when you understand the package, the next one is c๊oming and it resets everything.
“As I said now I thi♓nk we have a plan, let’s see if it contributes to a better result, but we are more confident than we have been in the pre🗹vious months.
“I think it’s more understanding about the car, we cannot forget last year was the first car that this ne𝕴w techn𝐆ical team was designing.
“We’ve been trying to add performance 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 half together🧜, and everythin♛g is growing still at the top level, and it’s a strong position into the future.
“So I’m very relaxed, but the present is what m🦋atters in racing and today the present is Barcelona and it’s obviously painful but I’m relaxed about the pe𝐆rformance.”

James was a sports༒ journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🌺erything from American sports, to football, to F1.