Fernando Alonso believes Ferrari ought to have received the Singapore Grand Prix, having completed simply behind Carlos Sainz.
The Aston Martin driver picked up 4 factors for eighth on the Marina Bay Circuit having undercut Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg on the pitstop window, who Alonso was in a practice with in addition to Charles Leclerc – who would ultimately end fifth.
Having picked up his fourth top-10 in 5 races, Alonso recommended that he had outperformed the true tempo of the AMR24 from throughout the weekend.
Requested if he had extracted the utmost, the two-time champion, who was the primary to complete of the lapped runners, replied: “Yeah, completely.
“Behind the highest 4 groups, simply in entrance of Checo, so usually it is ninth and tenth obtainable. Ending eighth is a bit higher than our greatest goals.
“Good factors, however nonetheless one lap behind and never nice tempo, tough automobile to drive the entire weekend. So yeah, we had been simply fortunate we bought factors, nevertheless it was attainable to be P15 and have the identical feeling.
“I feel we should always [have] be fifteenth and sixteenth. We’re eighth, two seconds behind a Ferrari. So I do not know if I can do extra.”
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24
Picture by: Alastair Staley / Motorsport Photos
Ferrari’s duo began out of place having endured a nightmare qualifying, with Sainz crashing firstly of his first Q3 lap earlier than Leclerc had his greatest effort deleted for exceeding observe limits.
It took Leclerc and Sainz out of the struggle for victory having proven aggressive tempo throughout the apply classes – albeit with two of the three held in unrepresentative circumstances.
However each drivers had their progress stunted by slower drivers through the race and had been compelled to make use of strategic choices to advance by means of the highest 10. Nevertheless, Alonso believes the Scuderia would have been victorious had they been in place.
“The Ferraris had been, I imply, they need to have received this race, in all probability. They had been the quickest automobile this weekend.”
