Monaco--Fernando Alonso remained optimistic about the future Monday despite being forced to retire from Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix in which his team-mate Briton Jenson Button claimed the struggling McLaren Honda team's first points of the year by finishing eighth.
The two-time world champion Spaniard was following Button comfortably in ninth through the middle part of the race when he was hit by a mechanical issue that sent him sliding into a run-off area at the Ste Devote corner.
It was his first retirement from the race since 2004.
AFP
