Even if there's no competitiveness, Alonso really doesn't want to stay in this crappy Alpine team and put up with this crap anymore.
Whoever the hell wants to stay can stay.
And after Alonso retired from the race, Bottas actually picked up a bargain, because he moved up from what should have been eleventh to tenth, and could bag a point after the race.
On Hamilton's side, Mercedes' estimation of the Red Bull's tyre condition was a bit too optimistic; Verstappen actually did complete the entire race on the medium tyres, and even in the latter stages, the grip of Verstappen's tyres was no worse than Hamilton's.
Because of that, Hamilton completely lost any realistic chance of challenging Verstappen for the race win.
In the end, the race wound down relatively calmly in the closing laps.
On the final lap, Qin Miao was still 2.1 seconds behind Perez in third.
For Qin Miao to chase up to that position, he had really already done his best.
