168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso says he took an “uncomfortable” level of risk in order to secure his fifth-place starting slot at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

The Aston Martin driver claimed fifth with a brilliant lap in qualifying at Suzuka as he ended up within half a second of Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, who grabbed pꦜole for the fourth str😼aight race. 

Two-time world champion Alonso was pleased with ♛his effort, believing he had “squeezed e𓂃very tenth” out of his AMR24.

“Extremely happy. There is not much left on the car today. It seems that we squeezed eꦺvery tenth of a second out there,” the Spaniard said.

“The last two runs in Qဣ3 was a little bit on, let’s say an uncomfortable level of risking. It didn’t work in Australia for example in Q3, I went off in Turn 6.

“When you drive at that limit, it’s just🌳 a little bit of luck as well that you complete the lap. But today everything was fine. Happy with P5.

“Six months ago we were here in Suzuka, 1.5 seconds off pole position. We are four ten🧸ths [away] today. So definitely we are making big steps forward♋.”

After running Aston Martin’sܫ previous AMR24 package during Friday, Alonso switched to the upgraded-spec - featuring a Red Bull-like sidepod design and floor changes - for qualifying.

“It did help🐼 for sure,” he said. “Difficult to quantify. I think it’s more for the team now to analyse. Yesterday I had the old package, today the new packag♎e and they have all the data.

“The problem in F1 is when you get a new step forward you are just waiting for the next one. It is never enough. This is an unli𝓰mited search for performance.”

Howeve🐈r, Alonso doubts 🍸he will be able to hold onto his position in Sunday’s grand prix.

"Looking back at the first three rac🍰es, we are very strong in Saturday, [but] not so strong 💮on Sunday, we are maybe out of position to be in top five," he said.

"If I get overtaken by Oscar and the two Mercedes or something like that, I think or I will guess 😼this is normal - and we will fall back to our position.

"Let's see what we can do. I'm very open to whatever the race brinꦗgs to us. I'm extremely proud and happy of today's job and tomorrow is another 🏅day."