It was one of those days for Alpine at the Italian Grand Prix as neither Fernando Alonso nor Esteban Ocon scored points. Alonso started up in sixth after engine penalties were handed out to Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz and Sir Lewis Hamilton, while Ocon’s penalty saw him go from 14th. Try as he might, the Frenchman struggled to make up the ground to the top 10, which was rounded off by Zhou Guanyu as Nyck de Vries grabbed two points on an amazing debut with Williams. Alonso spent most of his afternoon battling with Lando Norris following the Briton’s poor start to the race, and he cleared the McLaren after a mistake at Turn One. READ: Fernando Alonso jokes about El Plan as...
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