Alonso lost out to both cars of Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes, but Krack sees the positives as the team still outscored rivals Ferrari by six points to three, although Mercedes made a net gain of 18 points.
The battle for second in the constructors’ championship is currently led by Mercedes on 203 points, with Aston third on 181 and Ferrari fourth on 157.
"Verdict is damage limitation,” said Krack when asked about the weekend by Motorsport.com. “I would say we did not have the performance that we wanted to have on Saturday, Sunday.
"And to go away with scoring more points than Ferrari, I think you can call it damage limitation.”
In three of the last four race weekends, the team has not been in the fight for the podium after Alonso secured six top-three finishes in the opening seven races of the season.
“I always said you cannot have all the time podiums,” said Krack. “We had six podiums in 10 races. I always said there will be also moments where it will be a bit more difficult. And we had now a race where clearly on Saturday, we didn't have the pace that we wanted to have.
“I think going into the race we said we need to rely on our strength today, which is I think is pitstops, race starts, execution, strategy. And it played out quite well. All these we could rely on today. And I think this allowed us to come home still with decent points.”
Source: Autosport