168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso has admitted he “got confused” and spent “50 laps” of the F1 Monaco Grand Prix mistakenly believing that he was o🐻n course for a points finish.

The Aston Martin driver finished Sunday’s race 11th behind Alpine’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly 🌃but had been convinced he was actually running inside the top-10 and battling to secure th💝e final point on offer in 10th.

After teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll suffered a puncture in front of him and dropped down the order, Alonso believed he was defending from RB’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo in a bidಞ to salvage a p𒊎oint for Aston Martin, when he was in fact 11th.

"I got confused because when we [built the gap] and Lance was in front of me after the pitstops, they said, 'okay, we secured 10th.' We've been doing al💟l this for that last point,” Alonso said.

"Then Lance had the puncture, I said, 'Oh, now I have all the responsibility in my shoulders with very old tyres to bring this point back home.' I was drivi🧸ng for 50 laps thinking that I was 10th.

"And then when I crossed the🌊 line and they told me P11, I said, 'Oh, so𒈔, uh, all that stress for nothing.' But anyway, it kept me alive.

"I don't know [why that happened]. When the red flag came out, Lance was P10, I was P12. And then at one point they reinstated Sainz in P3, so we were 12th and 14th, we should be 13th and 14th, but Lance was in fr⛦ont of Daniel that he was not supposed to be.

"So I don't know in which position I started, and I don't know in which position I was driving.♓”

Sunday’s race was⛦ described as boring by many drivers, with the top 10 finishing as they started for the first time in F1 history.

Alonso reckoned the e🍬arly red flag period for a huge first-lap pile-up ultimately ruined the race, because it allowed the field to change their tyres and 🍌subsequently removed the mandatory pit stop rule.

"When there is a red flag and then you change tyres and you go to the end, the only point of interest in a Monaco race is the pitstops th♛at you have to do. If you remove that excitement of a pit stop, then it becomes nothing," Alonso said.

"Maybe it reopens the conversations of when there is a red flag, not changinꩵg tyres or be obliged to have the same tyre or something, because if not, there are certain occasions that the ra🙈ce is compromised.

"In our case it was very unlucky again. I think we didn't have the pace. It was a bad weekend. No doubt about that. We cannot hide our performance, but also we cannot hide that w෴e've been very unlucky.

"We started with a hard tyre just to go very end and have an alternative s𒐪trategy. There is a red flag, so we have to fit the medium and do 78 laps with the medium, which is a kamikaze strategy,🐼 but it was the only way to try to score some points."