A very bad closing for Alonso, after another breakdown and another sanction: "It hurts a lot"

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's frustration

at everything that happened on Sunday in Montreal was directly proportional to the expectations generated.

Of course, starting only behind

, something more should have been expected from the leader of Alpine, the victim of numerous setbacks that made him leave the Ille de Notre Dame with a disgruntled gesture.

Especially with his team and his A522, which he suffered another mechanical failure.

To top it off, a last-minute punishment relegated him from seventh place at the finish line to ninth in the final standings.

Almost three hours after the checkered flag, the stewards of the Canadian GP penalized Alonso five seconds for a dangerous maneuver against

.

According to the letter signed by

,

,

and

, the man from Oviedo made "repeated changes of direction" on the penultimate lap of the race, between turns 10 and 12. After reviewing the video images and telemetry of the Alfa Romeo driver, the judges opted for a punishment "in line with that imposed for a similar incident during the last Australian GP".

Those five seconds not only made him lose the position against the Finn, who had lost only three tenths at the finish line, but also against

, who gave up two seconds as soon as the checkered flag fell.

Unfortunately, what happened two months ago at the Miami GP was repeated, when an incident at turn 14 caused him to lose his place to

and

by only 102 thousandths.

"In my car again"

In this way, the two-time world champion leaves the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with only two points.

After the first nine races of the World Championship, he has only added 18, while

, his garage partner, has accumulated 39. This background being very poor, the truth is that misfortune struck again with the double winner of the 24 Hours of LeMans.

"We had a fault in the engine's energy system, which cut the KERS in the middle of the straight," Alonso said, estimating his deficit per lap between "eight tenths and one second."

"Another reliability problem and again in my car. Having this just today hurt quite a bit," he stressed.

Being relegated before the first third of the test was completed greatly upset the Asturian, who knew of the potential of his car.

"We had rhythm and we could have fought for the podium", concluded the two-time world champion.

However, that third place would end up in the hands of

, which caused even more sting, given that Alonso was ahead of the British for much of Sunday "in a more or less controlled way".

"I was going like a kamikaze"

According to his eloquent expression, from the setback in the engine, his only mission on the asphalt was "to survive".

"I was kamikazeing around corners, before I hit the DRS detection zones," she recounted with disgust.

As if that were not enough, the conclusive orders of

, boss of Alpine, so that Ocon did not give him the position in the final stretch of the race, bothered the man from Oviedo.

"I couldn't pass. It was very frustrating because even with that second that made me lose the breakdown I was still faster than my partner", he finished.

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