Alonso on McLaren: "Next year should be much better"

Fernando Alonso has opened up on McLarens poor 2018 performance. 

Alonso has said that there were some issues with McLaren in his last year with the team. 

“Some compromises were made in the car [but] a lot of hopes in performance were not coming. So, we only took the downside of those decisions” Alonso said to Motorsport.com.

“I think next year should be much better and the lesson is taken.”

“Since July we have been testing experimental parts for next year,” the Spaniard added. “There is a lot of optimism in the team with the direction the car took in the last couple of months.

“We know [in 2017] our car was very competitive on the chassis side –  we have the GPS comparison, we know the speed in the corners. The car was very competitive in some areas and we lost that level of competitiveness [in 2018] unfortunately.

“We understood why, so I think next year the team will be in a much better position and I am happy for them.”

McLaren fans will hope that the compromises the team made last season will put them in a stronger position in 2019.