Fernando Alonso: "We have to suffer this weekend" | Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso suffered again with his Alpine in qualifying and will start from seventeenth position this Sunday at the Monaco Grand Prix. New disappointment for the Asturian driver, who has not quite adapted to the blue car: "We are having a bad weekend, you could foresee that we were going to suffer," he said on DAZN microphones. Alpine was growing a lot after the good results in Portugal and Barcelona, but Monaco has brought the French back to reality. The car had a poor pace all weekend and confirmed its poor performance in qualifying: “Not being so high up in Monaco is never ideal. We had a bad weekend, you could foresee that we were going to suffer. We still have a very tough race ahead of us, but I'm happy to be here again and to experience Monaco again ”, assured Alonso. For the fourth consecutive Grand Prix, Esteban Ocon has overtaken Alonso in a qualifier. The Asturian rider is having a hard time adjusting to Alpine, something that had hardly ever happened to him in the entire race. One more qualifying, the Asturian could not go to Q3: "We expected much more from this race, we had good sensations of growth of the car in Portugal and Barcelona, but from the first day we have not found a good path," he said twice. Formula 1 champion This Sunday, Alonso will suffer from seventeenth position in the Monaco Grand Prix race: "It's time to suffer this weekend," concluded Fernando Alonso, who is suffering in his early days at Alpine.