Alonso rues lack of McLaren ‘ambition’

Finishing a lacklustre P14 at the Russian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso missed out on his only chance of glory – the fastest lap – when McLaren would not put fresh hypers on his MCL33 and let him go for it. Alonso was given some advice on how to pass the Williams only to reply: “We are P15. I don’t care.” Questioned about wanting it, he told reporters at Sochi: “Yes, when you are P14/15 it is good for the team, good for the guys working flat out every day, good for the sponsors and partners. “But we were lacking ambition I think.” He added: “It was quite a long race. We stopped on lap 4/5 to try to undercut some people. All of them had one set of yellow tyres, we had two. “The yellow tyre for the whole race with no issues, and that did not come out as we expected. Overall we did not have the pace, as we said before the race. “Nothing we can do now, so thinking of Japan and maybe we can score some points there.”

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