This season he has driven as well as he ever has in his career he's just had tons of bad luck which is out of his control. He's lost so many points this season through no fault of his own
- countless mclaren pit stop and strategy fails
- mclaren under fuelling his car in quali after he got pole by half a second resulting in being moved from 1st to 24th
- faulty gearbox resulting in 5 place grid penalty
- puncture through debris, only driver out of 24 to get one despite them all driving over it !
- 2 DNFs thanks to Maldonado and Grosjean
- Mclarens car being utterly hopeless in wet conditions
Take away his bad luck and he would probably be leading the championship. He's also consistantly outperformed jenson this season both in quali and races (although jenson was great at spa this weekend)
Alonso is still the best driver on the grid though, although he has had a ton of luck this season (up until spa that is...)