Honestly, how can you make conclusions of this piece of s$$t race? Alonso got involved in a lap 1 incident and also had to run off the track and slow down to avoid a spinning grosjean that caused a chaos which led him to lose a lot of positions and in Barcelona you simply can't follow/pass, just check the total overtakes of the race. And if that wasn't enough Alonso already had the disadvantage of starting with SS while the WHOLE grid was on S (u see its effects when the tires got worn up excessively after just few laps and then Leclerc was going away and Force India was catching). Then getting stuck behind the Sauber for most of the race just slowed him down and worn up his tires way more (same with mediums with which he had to do the whole race after the stop). In the end he closed the gap to around 3 seconds but ok was not enough. As for Vandoorne, he really destroyed everything in the start, penalty and then the driveshaft issue but I'm happy with the reliability since this is our 1st retirement of the year when all other teams got a load of more retirements. And Alonso was just unlucky, his start was way superior than the other cars, he stuck behind of Verstappen in the end of the straight. Plus, even Vettel couldn't close the gap to Verstappen that had a damaged front wing, so imagine... Everything was just wrong in this race, the only good was the fast pit stop
. If Alonso was in Magnussen's shoes he would just have a fully uninterrupted race and a sail up to P6, easy.
