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After a fast start to the season in which Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain GP, Ferrari have tailed off of late, with the team forced to settle for eight and ninth spot in Turkey, a race that was supposed to be a celebration of their 800th race in the sport.

Reports now suggest that Alonso is becoming highly frustrated with the teams’ lack of progress.

“I’m told that Fernando Alonso is very frustrated by Ferrari’s rate of development. Compared to his time at McLaren in 2007, when the British team had updates for every race, Ferrari’s flow of new parts this season has been very slow, with no more than little tweaks here and there so far,” explained BBC commentator Jonathan Legard.

“The result is that the car that started the season right on Red Bull’s heels is now, in Alonso’s words, ‘the fifth quickest’.