Fernando Alonso believes that some teams came into the Barcelona shakedown better prepared than Alpine did.

That three-day session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was the first opportunity to see the new generation of F1 cars out on track together ahead of the 2022 season.

Alpine were not exactly lighting up the timing screens in Barcelona, though the team suggested that was by design, but they did nonetheless manage to gather 266 laps of data for the A522.

It could have been more, but their test ended prematurely thanks to a fiery engine for Alonso on the morning of day three.