Around the halfway mark of a sweltering Losail race, Alonso urged the team to come up with a solution after feeling a burning pain in his seat.
"The seat is burning, mate," he said on the team radio. "Anything we can do at the pit stop? Throw me water or something!"
The team couldn't do much to provide some relief for the Spaniard, but afterwards team principal Mike Krack explained the burning seat is a recurring theme that it is trying to fix, and it was exacerbated by Qatar's extreme heat.
"Yes, it's true. He reported on it already a couple of times," Krack said when asked if the issue had occurred before.
"We were working on it. And it's not that we have not done anything. We had it also in Singapore, which we thought was much, much better.
"But then obviously, we have another set of extreme conditions, so I think we're not far from air conditioning if it continues like that."
Source: Autosport