Alonso: 'We need to wait another four or five painful results before changes'

Sergio Perez and Cadillac's loss was Alonso and Aston Martin's gain last Sunday. After a 10-second penalty was applied to the Mexican driver's time as he failed to line up properly inside his grid box after the red flag restart, the Spaniard found himself in the last points-paying position in the Principality. What further adds to that achievement is that he originally started from P21 on the grid.

Summing up his race, the former two-time world champion said to GPblog, among others: "It was difficult because this is very easy to crash. And you are 19th and you crash and you look stupid, you know, on TV when you just, like in FP1, you know, I crashed into the wall and the braking for the chicane and you are three seconds of the pace and you're still crashing. So it's not that you run out of talent, it's the car is very difficult and very on the edge.

Alonso's teammate, Lance Stroll, was among the two drivers who crashed out in Turn 19, where the track was later inspected. The Spaniard added: "It started very early on. I thought it was marbles at the end, so I saw, yeah, this black marbles or whatever on the outside. So we tried to keep always an inside line, but at one point it was everywhere. It was not a surprise to see the crashes."

Despite finished 10th, Alonso was not satisfied with his car. He added: "Zero positives from this weekend. We've been racing in various different circuits so far this year. All of them were clear for us in terms of understanding some of our weaknesses. In Australia, we found our engine was behind. In China, we found our energy was behind. In Monaco, we found our chassis is behind. And in Canada, we found that our gearbox or Miami was very bad."

Still, he underlined that he trusts his team to turn things around, although he would have to wait at least a few more Grands Prix before that happens. "I think every circuit exposed some of our weaknesses in the car, but the good thing is that there is a very good understanding on what action is needed in each of the areas. And for the second part of the year, the package that we try to bring all in once are tackling all those problems individually. So I have full faith and trust in the team because our impression and our feeling is that that car will change dramatically, so we just need to wait another four or five races of painful results," he concluded.