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Alpine had ‘problems in wind tunnel' over winter

Apr.18 Alpine struggled with 'some problems in the wind tunnel' over the winter, team executive boss Marcin Budkowski has admitted. Esteban Ocon made the ‘Q3' segment at Imola on Saturday but Fernando Alonso is just fifteenth. 'I didn't do well enough,' Alonso told Spanish reporters when asked why he is behind his teammate. 'I felt good in the car, I felt fast, the balance of the car was good, but every time I crossed the line it was not good enough to be in the top ten.' Budkowski, though, is not blaming the drivers. He said the Enstone based team, having switched from Renault to Alpine branding over the winter including a shaken-up management structure, struck 'some headwinds' in...
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