Fernando Alonso bemoans ‘not good enough’ Aston Martin performance in ‘very long’ Austrian GP

Things did not improve throughout the remainder of the race, and Alonso could only watch the likes of Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon battle it out ahead of him.

“A difficult race,” the 42-year-old commented. “When you don’t have the pace, you have to try different and alternative strategies.

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“We tried the three stops, then I locked up and I touched [Zhou] Guanyu in Turn 3, I had the penalty, so all in all it didn’t change probably the result because we were out of the points. A very long race [at] 71 laps when you are not fast enough.”