Fernando Alonso: “Further progress”

This weekend will mark the return of Fernando Alonso on the Catalan track of Barcelona, ​​the same where the pilot McLaren had his accident this winter during winter testing. The Spaniard, 11th in Bahrain last April, hopes that McLaren will have made the necessary progress to move up the hierarchy.

“I think in Bahrain we took a step forward and that put us closer to Q3 but also points and we need further progress to reach this goal. Obviously that's not what we want, we want to be on the podium and win races, but one step at a time and we hope that here in Barcelona we will see that progress. But we will have to see what the others bring here for this race. Obviously, this is the first Grand Prix in Europe, where normally everyone brings updates, as we do too. » explained the double world champion.

Fernando Alonso also said he suffered from a small inflammation in one eye, which is why the former driver Renault did not take off his glasses yesterday during the press conference, to protect himself from artificial light.