The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (McLaren), which ended today in twelfth place in the Chinese Grand Prix Formula 1 World Championship and first third of the Spaniard manages to complete this year , no pain besieged career after his recent accident, but neither could score.
The Spanish champion, who left the tenth position on the grid in his first Grand Prix since his accident a month ago Australia , which caused him to miss the stage of Bahrain, had set the goal to pass the goal from 10 first, but "unfortunately we did not have the pace to be in the points."
Still, "I think it was better than Friday" in free practice that day, the last time when he could train this year in Shanghai with dry track due to rain during training and classification yesterday, and improvements made McLaren "have been improving, although it has not been enough today."
"Anyway I'm happy to be back in the car and finish the race, because in Australia I could not finish logically by the accident, and in Bahrain did not compete, so this is practically the first race, or the first time we fifty and peak around in this car, "he said.
With the MP4-31 "It is the first time I have such a long stint," he reiterated, "and it will probably be very useful for the next races."
With the data collected today, "I think we have to improve in all aspects: power unit, with which we follow a little below the fastest, aerodynamically, and managing the tires, which is something we have to continue improving, "he reviewed.
In addition to the state of his car was important to check your own body as it is recovering from the fracture of his left rib ninth in Melbourne, a month ago, and pneumothorax who appeared to him in the area, which until this week He was afraid that if I had another impact could damage the lung.
Alonso participated in the Chinese test with pain he described as "controllable" and today hoped drive with only the aid of an aspirin, which seemed to work.
"The truth is that (have been) well, when I left I was a little worse, when I gave the reconnaissance laps I went to the grill and had more pain on Friday and Saturday, and was excited to see how it would be in race, "he acknowledged.
"However in the race, I do not know if tension or thrills running or whatever, I just remembered what rib right now," he said, "in the race, no problem."
The Spaniard also explained how was your strategy today, interesting despite feeling "a little disappointed" at not being able to enter points.
"The first lap was a bit of chaos, strange because there were cars all over the place, and thought it might happen something that could help us, but nothing happened, and finally all ran smoothly and we were not fast enough to be among the top ten, "he recalled.
The safety car came out on lap eight "We did not come too well, but neither is it to be a gift for those in front," but ruined part of the strategy of McLaren to make today only two stops, despite shoot something slower to abide tires.
"He picked out with yellow to go longer, because when the front stop and lose those 25 seconds trying to stretch those laps, but leave the safety car we did not come good," he admitted.
"Then in the race we were not going very fast, and opted to go to two stops, so it was a race a little patience, because we were going to go very slow, with average wheels, but we were going to stop once less than the others, so we went a little plug doing when we could, and pulling when we left, "reeled, although the result was" a boring tad in that sense. "
"We tried it finish the race with the minimum total time, and has not been enough to be in the top 10," he said, "to see how the next" in the Russian Grand Prix on 1 May.
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