5 Noteworthy performances from Fernando Alonso during his second stint at McLaren

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F1 Grand Prix of Monaco, Alonso is utterly in control

If the first stint in 2015 was a forgettable one for Fernando, who had to endure 8 DNFs in his maiden season with McLaren in the turbocharged era, the 2016 season was marginally better, it could be said.

And nothing could demonstrate this than what Alonso managed at the Grands Prix of Monaco (in the fashionable Principality) and at the USA (Circuit of the Americas).

In both races, Alonso clinched a vital P5 and thus 10 respectable points for a car that was still, very much a lame sedan when compared to the mean, feisty machines contesting at the front.

At the Monaco GP, clinched by Hamilton, Alonso battled the Renault of Nico Hulkenberg and the Toro Rosso of a driver who hails the Spaniard: Carlos Sainz Jr.

He gathered a respectable P5 but it was at the back of some persistence, especially given the barely drivable conditions at the track, Monaco besieged by the rains.

As Kevin Magnussen and Kimi Raikkonen weren't able to contest, hitting the wall, much to the chagrin of other drivers, Fernando Alonso, who'd made a good move right at the start, defending brilliantly from Bottas, was able to steer ahead of the backmarkers.

He would demonstrate familiar grit at Texas, under bright lights, when the McLaren driver would successfully compete with the likes of Felipe Massa, then, in a Williams and Carlos Sainz Jr. of Toro Rosso, emerging ahead of two cars that, purely on straight line speed, were far better than the lackadaisical pace of the McLaren.