RESULTS: Brazilian Grand Prix - Fre𝓡e practice results (2)

A year after he sent social🅠 media into a meltdown with his deckchair antics, Fernando Alonso once again poked fun at himself and McLaren-Honda's technical issues at Interlagos by trying his hand at being a cameraman... with poor results.

The Spaniard gave F1 one of its funniest moments in 2015 when, after breaking down in free practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix, he took to a deckchair to watch the remainder of ꧟free practice, inadvertently causing 🍃the #PlacesAlonsoWouldRatherBe meme that trended worldwide.

With history proceeding to repeat itself during FP2 for this year's race after suf🌼fering an ERS issue, Alonso - stuck on the outside of the circuit - went to find something to do, eventually coming across a cameraman, who gamely offered him the chance to have a go.

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With TV directors telling him they would cut to his camera and that he had to try and follow the approaching Sergio Perez, Alons🌌o attempted... but failed.

Admitting the amusement of last year's hijinks was in his mind as he was told to bring his MP4-31 to a halt, Alonso joked that he now want𓆏s to pra🦹ctice more.

ꦅ"I need to improve my skills," he said. "The joystick now seems very, very sensitive, so 🐽they told me on the headset that they will broadcast when Perez was coming. So I tried to find Perez and I found this guy on the asphalt, but not Perez!

"I fe⛦el very bad, I think I will go back after the drivers' briefing with the Por𝐆sche Cup, in case tomorrow I have any problems."

"Sense of humour in difficult moments. Last year it was a big thing when I stopped here and was sitting on the chair. So when I stopped I was trying to find a chair. But there was no chair and for 40mins I watched the cars, then in th🧜e last minute I had the opportunity."

Though frustrated to have his day hampered by technical issues, Alonso was otherwise encour🌊aged by the car's pace and has set his si🃏ghts on Q3 in qualifying.

"We saw today it seems to be a little more competitive than recent races so we were 10th and 11th and there is a real c☂h♓ance of Q3 tomorrow and we have to take it."

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