Fernando Alonso faced ‘unreachable planet’ in Aston Martin F1 breakthrough

Fernando Alonso has described how the top six cars in the dreadful Sao Paulo Grand Prix qualifying conditions were on an "unreachable planet."

For the first time in 2026, Alonso put the Aston Martin into Q3 in qualifying in the dreadful conditions of Interlagos, with the two-time champion taking ninth on the road, behind Haas's Oliver Bearman and ahead of the Williams of Alex Albon.