Vandoorne not feeling pressure despite gap to Alonso

Stoffel Vandoorne is not worried about his future in Formula One amid rumours his time at McLaren is running low. The Belgian believes that results this season have been “positive”.

Vandoorne has only scored eight points compared to Alonso’s 32 but he remains upbeat about his season.

Vandoorne told Crash.net in Canada: “I don’t feel any pressure at all. The results have been positive.

“At the moment there’s not much more I can do apart from driving at my best, and trying to make the most of what we have.”

Vandoorne finished two laps down in 16th place in Canada and has not scored points for three races.

“I think in a way, it has made me a lot stronger to try and deal with certain problems, to go into a race weekend differently and try and maximise everything that you have, even though the car we know isn’t maybe always capable of scoring points.

“To still try and extract the maximum out of that is not a given, It’s a different mindset, but it made me a stronger driver.”