Alonso smoking funny weed

Fernando Alonso (c) said the other LMP1 cars are 'much' faster than the Toyotas. In the race the Toyotas lapped the field as we predicted. Fernando must be smoking some sort of funny weed

Fernando Alonso must be smoking some funny weed. He said in Shanghai he feels the small edge Toyota displayed in Shanghai qualifying was "artificial" because of the way the hybrid system is used, and that without this the privateer cars are now quicker over a lap.

"I have already seen that they were faster than us in Fuji, and here they are much faster than us," said Alonso.

"We have the qualifying features on the car, which is only for one lap. We drain the battery to zero and we have more power, but only one lap.

"Let's say our advantage is artificial. They are much faster than us."