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Alonso: Red Bull fights Ferrari and McLaren can fight Red Bull
Fernando Alonso says McLaren-Honda must now use Red Bull as its reference and target in the coming rounds of the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship after scoring its first top six finish of the season in Russia. The two-time world champion put a disappointing qualifying session behind him in Sochi to make a superb start from 14th, before avoiding the lap one melee to hold down seventh for the first-half of the race and rising to sixth at the expense of the retired Max Verstappen. Arguably the strongest performance for McLaren since its switch to Honda power in 2015, Alonso was particularly pleased to hold a position inside the top ten from start-to-finish, a stark contrast to the previous...
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