Alonso proud of F1 points haul at Alpine's “worst” circuit

Alpine saw its cars finish eighth and 10th at Monz🅷a, having qualified outside of the top 10 on pure p🍬erformance in Friday’s qualifying session.
Reflectin🉐g on the Italian Grand Prix, Alonso said he was “proud” of his team for making the most of an uncompetitive weekend.
“I think it was a good Sunday for us,” Alonso said. “Scoring points with both cars is a difficult target every weekend to position both cars on the top 10 on Sundays. And it was even more here, because we seem a little bit less competiti🙈ve from the first practice, qualifying P13, P14.
“And now on Sunday being in the top 10 it means that we did something good to achieve this result. It waꦅs a good race, executed well, the pit 𝕴stops, the starts, no mistakes on the sprint race, no mistakes today.
“So you know, there are many factors and you have to make all of them quite perfect if you want to score points, because we don't have an🌞y margin. So I'm quite satisfied and proud of the team this weekend.”
Despite Alpine’s level of competitiveness varying somewhat, Alonso has scored points in eight of the last nine races.🍷
Looking ahead at the upcoming races in Russia, Turkey and the United States, Alonso is unsure where Alpine will stand relative to Alp♎haTauri and Aston Martin - its main competitors for fifth in the constructors’ championship.
“I think there's gonna be ups and downs for everybody,” Alonso added. “We saw in this triple header that we are up and down in the leveܫl of competitiveness and on the grid. In Spa, we we🦂re okay on the dry.
“We were not okay with the w꧙et. Zandvoort we were okay all weekend. Here we are not. So I think it's track dependence. So I 🍃don't know exactly in Russia, Turkey and Austin, how it's going to be.
“I think it will be better. I will say that Monza was already in the calendar as one of the worst [for Alpine], we knew that. So, yeah, let's se﷽e what we can do.”

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