He finished 9th in Bahrain to earn a couple of points, and he was pushing to finish in the top six in Saudi Arabia before having to retire.
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Fernando Alonso believes that if his luck had been a little better at the start of the new Formula One season, he could have been fighting for a spot in the top six. The Spaniard has had a promising start to the season, but he may not have gotten the points he deserved. He finished 9th in Bahrain to earn a couple of points, and he was pushing to finish in the top six in Saudi Arabia before having to retire due to a fault with his A522.
Currently, he is 13th in the world championship standings, but with teammate Esteban Ocon in sixth place, it’s clear that the Alpine car has the capability to compete up towards the front of the grid. “I think I had two great races,” the Spaniard said as per Motorsport.com.
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“One in Bahrain, but unfortunately with the wrong strategy maybe with the starting tyre, starting on a scrubbed and then that compromised my whole race, and with an engine also that was not great in Bahrain. And in Saudi Arabia I think I was very fast in qualifying, very unlucky because some other people didn’t have new tyres in Q3 and the scrubbed set was the fastest, unfortunately.”
“So we had to overtake [some] cars and go back to our natural position, which was I think P5 or P6. Another retirement, so it’s disappointing to have only two points after two great weekends,” the two-time world champion added.
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Putting bad luck aside, the Spaniard also admits that he and his teammate have on occasion ‘gifted’ points to those behind them on the track. “We gifted some points to the people behind us,” he said.
“It’s a long way, luck will turn around and hopefully we will receive some of these gifts in the future. I’m happy with the performance but, as I said, we lost points. I think I could be P6 or P7 in the championship, to be honest, and I’m not in that position and it’s not because we don’t deserve it. It is just because we didn’t maximise the points.”
