Fernando Alonso reminded everyone he can still drive in the rain. The 45-year-old Spaniard qualified into Q3 for the first time this season at Interlagos, briefly topping the timesheets on Saturday as the wet track masked the Aston Martin's pace deficit. He even ran wheel-to-wheel with Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari before reality hit on Sunday: P12, no points, seven points total after 20 rounds. It's a grim echo of his 2001 rookie year with Minardi, when the car was hopeless and the scoreboard showed zero. Two world titles and 32 wins separate then from now, but the gap between Alonso's talent and his machinery remains the same. He's banking on Adrian Newey—the designer he passed over at Red Bull in 2007—to finally deliver a third championship at Aston Martin. The odds aren't great, but the speed is still there when the conditions allow it.
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