Nevertheless, his hopes of holding onto the place vanished when his Aston Martin started to smoke and he parked up at Rascasse, which was the fruits of an earlier downside that originally gave the impression to be manageable.
“I feel the race was tough from our facet,” Alonso concluded. “We needed to handle many issues – from Lap 15 we had an issue so we didn’t have {the electrical} a part of the engine. It was 160hp [horsepower] much less.
“Right here in Monaco it’s not essential, the facility, so we stored sixth place alive for fairly a very long time, however ultimately the engine stopped. It was not the top of the weekend that we needed.
“It isn’t all the way down to luck. It’s not that the fallacious Security Automotive or one thing got here from the sky and hit our automobile – as we speak [there] was one thing fallacious on our engine that we have to examine and attempt to enhance for subsequent time.
“I’m aggressive – it’s not that I really feel sluggish or I simply have contact with the wall or with individuals on the primary lap and due to my errors, I’m not scoring any factors. I feel I’m driving at a excessive stage and I simply want to attend and see what occurs within the subsequent races.”
