The Spaniard made it clear on several occasions during the race that he was frustrated by a lack of straightline speed, a result of aero set-up choices made by the team.
But his most noteworthy comment was a result of Aston Martin calling him in for his first pitstop earlier than he had expected.
Alonso had made a good start on the soft tyres, taking advantage of contact ahead between Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez to shoot up to sixth place.
But he was the first top-six runner to pit, coming in as early as lap 11 as the team responded to cars behind stopping.
Later on in the race, as he struggled with the lack of straightline speed, he told the team that it was “throwing me to the lions stopping that early”.
Alonso, who recovered to eighth place after a change of strategy, downplayed the suggestion that he was angry on the radio, and said any driver would be frustrated in the same situation.
“Well, not angry,” he said when asked by Autosport about the radio exchange. “I think it's the same classic theme, the classic FOM radio, completely out of context.
“I'm not sure exactly what other drivers say when they are behind a car that is slower and on the straight, they are pulling away even when you open the DRS.
“Maybe they say, 'I'm okay, I'm happy to stay here and to stay behind'.
“But I prefer to be motivated, to overtake them. On track, as I said, I was slower even with the DRS open.
“So I called for a different strategy, we stopped, we beat them. So that's the way we do it. We beat everyone on track, even if the radio is the highlight.”
Source: Autosport