Alonso claims he has not had a championship car since 2007

Fernando Alonso has claimed that he has not had a Formula One car worthy of a world championship for over a decade which makes it no surprise how off the pace he has been in recent years, whilst also providing an update on his future career intentions.

Alonso is a two-time title winner, emerging victorious in 2005 and 2006, but since then his career has stalled due to some alleged poor career decisions like joining a team at the wrong time.

In 2014, F1's turbo hybrid engines were introduced and since then Alonso has not even won a Grand Prix race, last competing for a championship back in 2012 when with Ferrari.

The Spaniard has looked back on the lack of success over the years, particularly recently, and it is his opinion that he simply did not have a good enough car to compete for more titles, and that the focus needs to be put on drivers again.

"I think it has been up and down," Alonso said.

"think the last possibility of the last championship car we had was 2007. The rest has been always quite far off from the performance of the top and the winning team of that season.

"We're now 11 years after that moment, so I don't think it's a problem [for me to be off the pace] but I think the biggest thing for me is to think about the direction Formula One is going and I don't think too much about how competitive we'll be next year as it is impossible to predict. It is just about the sport.

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"When you see again the grid in Canada there were two Mercedes, two Ferraris, two Red Bulls, two Force Indias and two Renaults in Q3. It is a constructors' world championship and not a drivers' world championship so it is something I need to decide."

When asked whether he regretted not winning more championships, Alonso was showed humility in his response, saying he felt honoured to be part of the sport for this long.

"No not really I think there are opportunities missed in the past, and we could have won probably four or five championships by I think seven points one time, and then three or something like that," he continued.

"But at the same time I feel extremely privileged to have this 18 years in F1 and I know there are drivers here that I race against, I see them on the track, I see their talent, I see their previous categories, and they've never even reached a podium.

"I see my teammate now [Stoffel Vandoorne], I see Nico [Hulkenberg], I see Carlos [Sainz]. I see a lot of talented drivers that they didn't score a podium. At the same time, we missed some opportunities as I said but I'm happy with the things that I've done."