Fernando Alonso was unimpressed by how many of his laps were spoiled by traffic during practice in Monaco.

The Aston Martin driver wants the stewards to take a tougher line on drivers impeding their rivals tomorrow.

“I think traffic will be the main topic,” he said. “We know with these cars it’s quite difficult to fit two cars on track.

“Obviously free practice is different to qualifying so hopefully a harsher approach, in terms of penalties, will be taken tomorrow in qualifying. If not, it’s going to be difficult.

“But it’s the same for everybody so you have to be lucky in qualifying and to have that clean lap will help always to make some progress in Q1 and Q2 and let’s see.”

During the second practice session Alonso complained he was being distracted by the number of drivers who cut across the chicane at turns 10 and 11. “No one is doing turn 10,” he told his race engineer Chris Cronin. “It’s so distracting. Why do they miss the corner? Why are you allowed to?”

Alonso’s team mate Lance Stroll was the only driver penalised for an incident involving a driver who was trying to overtake him. Charles Leclerc collided with the Aston Martin driver early in the first practice session. The stewards gave Stroll a one-place grid penalty.

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Several drivers complained about the traffic in Monaco on Friday. Yuki Tsunoda said he wasn’t able to conduct any useful running on the medium tyre in second practice because of it.

“I didn’t have any laps,” he said. “I had one lap, but then a red flag and everything, I just had a single lap to be honest.”

He was able to complete some representative runs on the soft tyre. “It’s almost up to luck to get a lap,” he said.

“In FP1 I didn’t have any [clean] laps. Fortunately, I had a few more laps in FP2. It was alright.”

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