Aston Martin<\/a> pit wall to stop the car, which he did just short of the pit lane entrance before visibly showing his frustration.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was 100 metres away from the garage, but probably the problem was bigger than anything possible to do in the garage,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So yeah, the safest thing for everyone else also on track was to stop \u2013 and I followed the instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he\u2019d been optimistic after that strong Friday showing, the two-time World Champion replied with: \u201cI was\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
However, that didn\u2019t quite extend to a place in Q3 being a realistic possibility, although a decent result was lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably difficult, but [in practice] we were P12, P13, P11, so we were in the window. If we put a good lap, maybe it was possible, but I think that was probably too optimistic. Maybe P13, P12 was our position today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mexico has proved better suited to the AMR26 package compared to other tracks than had been anticipated, and Alonso said there was a simple reason.<\/p>\n
“Less straights. There are two straights only into [Turn] 1, into 4. The rest, with the level of grip so low, you hardly can go full throttle, so there is less power sensitivity here. So it was maybe because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The experienced Spaniard is pessimistic about the chances of making progress from P18 on the grid at a track where running in traffic is notoriously challenging.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuge problems with temperatures for everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you start at the back, there is no way you can follow cars closely, or something like that.<\/p>\n
“So, there is not much we can do \u2013 and I think we lost a big opportunity. So frustration is beyond imagination. But this is the story of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has stated that his “frustration is beyond imagination” after a power unit problem brought the Aston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-954440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}