Close to Max Verstappen throughout the race, Fernando Alonso at one point believed he could have attacked the Dutchman<\/b>. But the pace was slightly below that of the number 1 Red Bull. \u00ab We were hoping to be able to challenge Red Bull a little more, but we also lost a position at the start with Lewis and it was more of a battle with Mercedes<\/b>. \u00bb<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to find a bit more traction and that might be why we still lack a bit of rhythm. I hope we’ll put even more pressure on Max in the next race,” said the Spaniard to Jenson Button’s microphone.<\/p>\n
“A challenging race where it was impossible to relax for a moment, that’s the assessment delivered by Alonso of this Grand Prix.”<\/p>\n
\u00ab At the beginning, I had a bit more rhythm, but in the end it was Lewis who had a little bit more. It was a Grand Prix where we had to give it our all. It was like doing qualifying laps for 70 laps. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Second at the finish, Fernando Alonso had a challenging race for 70 laps. Towards the end of the Grand Prix, he managed to withstand Lewis Hamilton’s comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":33176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[360,529],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-alonso","tag-grand-prix-du-canada"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n