Fernando Alonso begins to cover mouths | Formula 1

Sorry about qualifying yesterday. We had a better car than to be eighth, but we will be there soon. Good job, guys, “said Fernando Alonso on the radio at the conclusion of the Portuguese Grand Prix. It had not been a good qualifying for the Alpine rider at Portimao, but the Alpine pace was very good and the strategy and his driving allowed him to sign a very worthy eighth place. The Asturian progresses at the same time as the French team, which achieved a seventh and eighth position to present its candidacy to be at the top of the peloton, it was not a great start to the season for Alpine. The performance of the blue car had been heavily criticized for the first two weekends, but Portimao has changed everything. At the Portuguese Grand Prix, Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were able to enjoy on the asphalt of a car with a pace similar to that of McLaren and Ferrari, something unthinkable in Bahrain. Alpine’s improvements allowed Esteban Ocon to close a great seventh place in the classification of the Grand Prix, but disappointment flooded Alonso’s followers after qualifying: he finished thirteenth after riding with less rhythm than in free practice: “I still don’t understand how we could lose a second in the clock, but the past is past” , Alonso said this Sunday after the race. However, Alonso had a plan to claim for the umpteenth time in full adaptation to the Alpine and his return to Formula 1 Strategy, pace and driving: all good The Driver of the Day finally went to Checo Pérez -something a bit surprising-, but Fernando Alonso was one of the top candidates in the Portuguese Grand Prix. The Asturian signed his best career since his return to Formula 1.Although he lost a position at the start, a great strategy by Alpine holding on to the medium tires allowed him to finish strong at the end of the race. And that’s when Magic Alonso appeared, and if the car accompanies him, Fernando Alonso always makes us enjoy. The pace of the Alpine was very high and the Spaniard overtook pilots such as Pierre Gasly, Ricciardo and Carlos Sainz. The last two were beautiful: the McLaren one went around the outside on the straight to get into ninth place. Moments later, Carlos Sainz was his last victim in Portimao, beating him in the DRS zone in the midst of the Ferrari driver’s depression, to whom neither the car nor the team strategy in Portugal responded: one abandonment and twice in the points zone for Fernando Alonso in the first three races of the season. Despite the poor start, the results were not bad and Alpine is making progress: “It was the best weekend of the season. We have been in a hand-in-hand with McLaren and Ferrari ”, assured the Asturian driver, who will face the next Grand Prix in Barcelona with the hope of confirming the improvement of his Alpine.