The team was only eighth fastest overall in Spain, having lost most of the final day after a hydraulic leak led to a fire.
Like other teams Alpine has brought a package of updates to the Bahrain test. The car didn’t set any headline-grabbing times on Thursday when an issue restricted mileage, but on Friday Esteban Ocon was fastest in the morning session.
“Obviously we had a strange day yesterday,” said Alonso. “And we had some issues that we attacked in the afternoon, especially when I jumped in. So not the laps that we wanted.
“But yeah, we made some progress. The car felt better than Barcelona for sure. We brought some new things here and more to come in the next days, and hopefully into the race one.
“Everyone is working flat out. And I’m happy, I’m optimistic that we will be much better in the next couple of days, and especially in race one.”
Alonso said that Bahrain hadn’t highlighted any particular problems with the A522, and in fact the team learned that it…
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