Alonso progressed to Q3 for the second race in a row as he secured ninth place on the grid for the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, which marks Alpine’s home race. While Alpine has enjoyed some strong qualifying results so far this year, it has often struggled for pace in the races, aside from Portugal, where Alonso stormed through to eighth, and Baku, where the Spaniard gained late places amid a chaotic race to take P6. The Anglo-French squad has been left stumped by the performance drop off from Saturday to Sunday but Alonso suggested that progress has been made in understanding why it has been less competitive in the races. “In free practice we already saw on a few occasions we...
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