Originally Posted by jens
Alonso's performance at Magny-Cours was strongly affected by the gearbox problems in qualifying, so it's hard to say, how well he could have fought against Hamilton without problems. So therefore I can't say that FA was a failure in this race. He did his best, but McLaren wasn't a superior car in this race. Hamilton managed to beat Kubica only by 10 secs in the end, which shows that McLaren was only slightly better than BMW - therefore no surprise that Alonso struggled against Heidfeld so much.