Fernando Alonso: P2 was possible even with “completely destroyed” floor

Alonso suffered an off🅷 at the final corner during the early stages of Q1.
He sustained some significant floor damage as a result, lea🐷ving Aston Martin trying to fix it during the remai🌳nder of qualifying.
Alonso went on to qualify only ninth - his worst result of the season as he was out-qualified by teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lance Stroll for the first time in F1 2023.
Speaking after the session, Alonso revealed - like 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton - he made a mistake at Turn 10 which cost him a shot at qualifying second behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.
“In the Q3 lap I was coming for 1m12.7s, until Turn 10, that again I ran wide i🔯nto the dam꧅p part on the outside,” Alonso explained.
“So when🔥 I saw now that 1m12.7s is P2 and P3, I was sur꧅prised.
“That’s why I’m optimistic for tomorrow because the car seems to h꧃ave a lot of pace.”
Reꦇflecting on his Q1 error, he explained: “Q1 probably did compromise everything today. I did a mistake, I went on the damp part of the circui💙t, I guess, in the last corner because I lost the car, and then it was very costly because that gravel completely destroyed the floor.
“And yeah, it hurts even more because it’s the out-lap, I ꦚwasn’t even pushing. It was not a push lap,♈ it was the out-lap.
“So, yeah, disappointed with my performance ꧙today. Hopefully I can do a better Sunda🍒y.”
It was an unusual qualifying session in Spain as Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes all had just one car in the final shootout f🍬or pole.

Alonso described Saturday at Barcelona as “st🔯range”.
“It was a strange qualifying – to see [Charles] Leclerc out of Q1, [Sergio] Perez, [George] Russell out of Q2, we were struggling as well,” he adde💧d.
“So, I think it was tricky for everyone but in my case it was just myꦫ mistake, in the out-lap of Q1, that compromises everything.
“But the race is tomorrow, the car still felt competitive even with🅠 some damage on the floor.”

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