Fernando Alonso admits historic victory in Monaco GP is "very unlikely" from sixth

Fernando Alonso has all-but ruled out winning Sunday's Monaco GP from sixth on the grid after struggling to find his F138's sweet spot around the twists and turns of Monte Carlo.

With Felipe Massa unable to participate in the session after a heavy crash during Practice Three, Alonso ran in qualifying as the sole Ferrari representative. The team's day was later summed up by a fine of €1000 being meted out against the Spaniard for speeding in the pitlane, but it was Alonso's lack of pace out on track which was of greatest concern. "It's a very unique track and you need to have a completely different set-up here: different ride heights, different system geometries and suspension rake - everything changes on the car for Monaco so it doesn't mean that the cars that have been competitive during the season have to be competitive here. "There are always some good surprises or some bad surprises and maybe this year we didn't interpret good enough what was required for Monaco with the 2013 tyres or whatever," Alonso accepted. "I think we need to understand it better because Thursday we were not the fastest but we were not as bad as today because we were a little bit more competitive. Today we lost some ground maybe in the temperature or whatever and we felt less competitive. This morning, we had a different set-up just to have no doubts we went back to the Thursday set-up for qualifying and it was still not very competitive. "So we need to understand it. We were both cars in the podium in Barcelona and this morning before the qualifying we were P9 and P11 so definitely we today we were not at our best." The 2013 Monaco Grand Prix this weekend is live only on Sky Sports F1. Don't miss out, upgrade or subscribe to Sky Sports today or purchase a 24-hour day pass from Now TV