Fernando Alonso says he will brush off another bitterly disappointing weekend for the McLaren-Honda team as an engi🔯ne blowout just two laps shy of a top ten finish once more summed up the team's persistent troubles.

Returning to F1 action following his much publicised Indy 500 endeavour, A💎lonso defied his MCL32's lack of straight line speed to avoid first lap dramas and go long in the first stint in the hope it would give the Spaniard a fresher car in the latter stages.

It was a tactic that appeared to ༒be working with Alonso running tenth and on course for the McLaren's first point of the season onꦰly for the Honda engine to cry enough in sight of the end.

Almost laughing✃ off yet another failure from the Japanese arm of the team - which could well have repercussions for the next round in Baku too -, the Spaniard says he is mostly disappointed for the mechanics working overtime to fix numerous issu𒊎es.

"We were in the points two laps from the e🅷nd but another engine gave up. In the end there is nꦐothing we can do, let's try next time.

"Tenth place would not change my life after 16 years here but for the guys it means sꦆomething. They work so much day and night, preparing the strategy, taking care of every single detail so you want to do a go🦂od result for them."

"With Jenson's power unit in Monaco starting last now another power unit gone again soဣ we will probably start last in Baku, i✱t is quite difficult."

Despite his disaꦕppointment, Alonso brought some joy to the fans down at Tu🐎rns 7/8 by heading into the grandstand to get up close and persona.

"I thought to give the gloves to the guys there but the grandstand was too far away so I will not get there if I throw the gloves. So I thought I will go a little bit closer to them and once I was there I could ✤not go to bike anymo😼re. It was fun. We have so much support from the fans in Canada so I felt we needed to give something back."