‘We lost an opportunity’ – Fernando Alonso rues ‘very wrong’ strategy calls at Silverstone for Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso expressed his frustration with a “disappointing race” at Silverstone, because the Spaniard rued Aston Martin’s technique calls regardless of coming dwelling within the factors.

Alonso began seventh on the grid and completed the British Grand Prix in ninth, with crew mate Lance Stroll coming dwelling in P7 to safe Aston Martin’s first double factors haul of the yr.

Regardless of beginning down in seventeenth, Stroll managed to leap his crew mate after altering to tender tyres within the interval between the primary Digital Security Automotive and the rain arriving – the Canadian making up a handful of locations.

Within the latter levels of the race Alonso additionally gambled, changing into the primary to bolt on the medium tyres on a drying monitor. It appeared he had blinked a few laps early, and tiptoeing round price him but extra time on his option to an eventual ninth.

“All of the individuals we lose locations to, they’ve worse tyres or we simply lose locations for enjoyable?” Alonso had requested on the radio, whereas additionally saying “loopy the way you by no means get it proper with me”.

“Fairly disappointing race for us to be sincere, beginning P7, end P9,” Alonso mentioned after the race. “It seems like we misplaced a possibility to attain extra factors however we bought it flawed in the present day, very flawed with the technique and this could occur in a messy race.

“Final week, a one-stop in Austria was the proper name to attain extra factors than what we deserve in all probability and in the present day we have been a bit of unfortunate so hopefully the following race we now have a possibility in blended situations, we get it proper.”

In the meantime Stroll scored six factors in seventh place, nevertheless it might have been extra for the Canadian – he was operating third for a lot of the race, however dropped again late on because of excessive ranges of tyre put on regardless of the cool situations.

“The crew made some good technique calls in the course of the race and general, end result,” Stroll mentioned. “I actually struggled with tyre degradation and sadly we weren’t ready the place we might battle for extra.

“[Nico] Hulkenberg had much more grip throughout that final stint and with the extent of degradation we bought the very best end result in the present day.”