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Alpine's F1 finishing rate "really unacceptable", says Alonso
Fernando Alonso says Alpine's reliability level this year has been "really unacceptable" after yet another retirement in Formula 1's Singapore Grand Prix.
Jonathan Noble
Edited: Oct 4, 2022, 2:36 PM
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The Spaniard looked set for another decent haul of points at the Marina Bay circuit on Sunday as he ran sixth in the early stages before an engine failure put him out.
That stoppage, with teammate Esteban Ocon also suffering an engine failure later on in the race, opened the door for McLaren to overhaul Alpine in their battle for fourth in the constructors' championship.
Alonso says that the number of points he has lost this year has been too much.
"I think it was around minus 50 [points], so now we have another eight," he explained. "So it's minus 58 points or minus 60 in a year, which is really unacceptable on my car.
"If you put me 60 points more in the standings, and you reduce 10 or something to the others, because you would take points from those as well, my championship will look much better and close even to Mercedes.
"So that is probably more accurate of the performance that we are putting this year, which I'm very proud of. Even today, the top five or top six we were fighting for. But the standings doesn't translate to performance."
Fernando Alonso, Alpine F1 Team, arrives at the track
Photo by: Carl Bingham / Motorsport Images
Alonso is currently ninth in the drivers' championship on 59 points, and another 60 points would lift him to seventh overall on 119 points, behind Lewis Hamilton on 170.
While Alonso's engine failure came after he elected not to follow what rivals did in taking fresh power units at the Belgian or Italian Grands Prix, he does not think that was a factor in what went wrong in Singapore.
"I think the engine mileage it was okay," he said. "Even I think Esteban had a problem and has a newer engine. So I don't think that this is down to that.
"But I will have to put a new engine in the next few races for sure. We'll see when. So yeah, [that's] more points that we will lose."
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While Alpine's reliability has not been great this season, Alonso's teammate Esteban Ocon thinks the outfit did the right thing in chasing performance with its A522 car.
"This weekend hasn't been a good one for us for reliability, because we had a DNF with both cars, but I think with new regulations, and such important regulations, we needed to push and we needed to make the car work.
"We can rely on a quick car for next week again. So that's what I'm looking at, more than the rest."
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