Listen to this article Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon had a fairly low-key week at the first Barcelona pre-season test, before running was cut short by an hydraulics problem on the final day. But even though the team never featured near the top of the timesheets, Alpine thinks a combination of factors meant its true potential was never going to be on display. One of the key contributors was a decision not to run DRS in the test – which was worth around seven tenths of a second per lap – but the team also elected to run heavier on fuel loads at the test than it normally would. And having finally found a good setup with the car on the final morning, which helped Alonso deliver his fastest lap of the test, its running was cut short by a split hydraulic pipe that triggered a car fire. Sporting director Alan Permane said the DRS and fuel factors automatically held back its laptimes, but reckoned the reality was the team had a better week than it looked from the outside. “I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses, and I’m not saying we’re going to go out and beat Mercedes and Red Bull, but I think we are in a dece …