Fernando Alonso is now more relaxed over of being held up behind lapped traffic at the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, having lost both first and second places to the McLaren drivers after being slowed by back-markers last time out in Canada.
Hindered by passing incidents with Jarno Trulli’s Lotus and Karun Chandhok’s Hispania, both at Turn 7 in Montreal, Alonso was first overhauled by Lewis Hamilton during pit-stops before being overtaken on-track by Jenson Button.
“I think, about the problems with lapping people in Canada, there’s nothing we can do now,” the Ferrari driver said in Valencia on Thursday.
“We still think that we lost the opportunity to get something better out of that race but I think that, at the end of the year, everything will have balanced out - sometimes it happens to us I’m sure it happens to the others at other races.”
On Wednesday, Formula 1 governing body the FIA announced that the 107 percent qualifying rule – which means all drivers must be within 107 percent of the fastest time in Q1 qualifying to be able to start the race – will return; however, Alonso is unsure whether problems with slower traffic will be such an issue in 12 months’ time.
“For next year, I don’t think that we will see the difference we’ve seen this year,” he continued. “I think the three new teams arrived very late this year and I think that next year they will be better prepared and the gap will be closer.”
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