Fernando Alonso calls for 'immediate' Ferrari improvement after British qualy nightmare

Fernando Alonso has voiced his concern with Ferrari's sudden slide in form and called for an "immediate" improvement after the title-chasing team slumped to their worst qualifying session of the season at the British GP.

Even before Saturday, Alonso hadn't started inside the first two rows of the grid since the Bahrain GP in late April and the Spaniard conceded that it was worrying that the team's qualifying performances were clearly tailing off. "The dangerous moment is the way that we seem to perform worse and worse. I remember at the beginning of the year both Ferraris were on top, we were on the first two rows normally in the first three or four races. I remember even Malaysia Felipe even started on the first row of the grid," he recalled. "Now here we start getting in the positions that are familiar unfortunately - that is fighting for Q3, as we were last year. Felipe this time is out of Q3, we are tenth, so we need to come back to the form we had at the beginning of the year immediately otherwise we'll lose too much ground." However, three weeks on from turning sixth on the grid into second place at the chequered flag in Canada, Alonso pointed out that such Sunday salvage operations were an occupational hazard for him. "In terms of recovery positions, it's nothing new - I've been doing this from 2008," he said. "It's the fifth or sixth year that I start five or six positions behind the leader of the championship and I fight for the World Championship until the last race. I think this year will not be too different."