BARCELONA, Spain -- Fernando Alonso was in an optimistic mood about McLaren's upgraded car after progressing to Q3 for the first time in 2018 ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Alonso took the papaya orange car, featuring a radical front nose design which has turned heads in the paddock this week, into the top-ten shootout in front of his home crowd. He will line up eighth for Sunday's grand prix and he declared it a reason to be happy with the team's new package.
"I'm happy with that, definitely," Alonso said. "P8 I think is a good position.