Birthday boy Fernando Alonso qualified seventh for the Hungarian Grand Prix, which is better than he has done on most occasions this season, but the McLaren driver was not terribly enthused by his birthday gift.
“To start 7th and 8th tomorrow, as we will, was our first big goal for the weekend. It’s nice but I’ve had better birthday gifts! I’ve won here, I’ve been on the podium, so to be 7th on the grid, it’s the least we could have achieved knowing this is a track where the engine counts a bit less.”
“But we’re still far behind, so let’s try and have some fun tomorrow. There are a lot of things happening in the background for 2018, so let’s hope next year we can be fighting for pole positions and not for 7th places on the grid.”
A victory or a podium is highly unlikely, but anything can happen as Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull slug it out at the sharp end.
If anything does happen among the front runners, Alonso hopes to be there to pick up the pieces, “Our result depends more on what those in front of us will do, because we’re not in a position to be able to improve our pace by so much.”
“Taking risks or not, our position is this one in terms of pace, so we have to wait for something to up ahead of us to move up; otherwise it will be difficult to do it,” added Alonso who won the Hungarian Grand Prix back in 2003.
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