“Fortunately Flip 1 is a nook that you just simply downshift and go into the nook. If that occurs in Flip 14 or wherever, I feel it might be a large crash as a result of I’d take 4 or 5 automobiles in entrance of me out of the race.
“For an unfortunate scenario I feel we had been fortunate at present to [not] hit any automobile in entrance of us, and now let’s attempt to perceive what occurred and attempt to see the primary chequered flag in Japan.”
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Alonso did handle to cross the road in Saturday’s Dash, although missed out on factors in P10. Pushed on whether or not there have been positives to take from the tempo displayed by the automobile in Shanghai, the 40-year-old mirrored: “In all probability. I feel we now have to see now within the race, particularly with Lance [Stroll], what we are able to do.
“I feel we had been just a little bit higher than in Australia, I feel in race tempo, within the Dash and hopefully at present with Lance, and let’s attempt to maintain enhancing the automobile.”