Fernando Alonso targets to stay amongst the top teams – Formula 1 news
Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso targets to stay amongst the top teams in 2012 Formula 1 season while he expects that couple of drivers will lead the championship.
“So far in three races we have seen three different scenarios,” Alonso said. “But I expect the championship will settle down and while now there are maybe four teams and a few drivers fighting for the championship, I expect later it will be a couple of drivers
and two teams and we need to be in that group.”
Alonso took an incredible victory in Malaysian GP held at Sepang International Circuit on wet track and secured an impressive fifth place finish in the season opener at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia.
However, the Spaniard could only manage to finish at ninth place in the race at Shanghai International Circuit in China after starting from the same position in the grid.
Ferrari introduced five updates in the car for the race in China with a hope to see improvement in the car’s pace.
Conversely, the race did not go as expected for them and afterwards, the technical director, Pat Fry said, “The result does not represent the car's true potential in race but we have to accept it.”
It will be important to mention that after winning the second race, Alonso said that they still needed to enhance the performance of their car for the normal race conditions.
Nevertheless, he said that he is aiming at staying close to the front even with no so competent car as compared to the top contenders.
Furthermore, he said that the teams have a competitive edge due to the advancements they have made in their cars in the season so far.
“One factor is that it's the early stage of the championship, but eventually the teams with greater development potential will gain a little bit of an advantage,” said Alonso.
In addition, he said that they still have plenty of work to do in order to make the necessary developments and the substantial preparations for the upcoming races.
He also said that the mid-season test which is going to be held at Mugello will be quite crucial for the Scarlet team so as to make the essential evaluations of the updates in F2012.
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