Fernando Alonso: “It should be a good weekend for us”

Fernando Alonso has reiterated that he has given up on the 2011 title, but wants to win more races before the end of the season.

The Spaniard, who won in controversial circumstances in 2008, says that Singapore could be one of his best chances.

“We will try to attack, try to be aggressive with the strategies and the starts, try to win races,” said Alonso. “We know that we cannot fight for the general classification, we know that we cannot fight for the Tour de France, but we want to win individual stages. So we want to win individual races.

“Here in Singapore it’s true it’s one of our best opportunities in the remaining races, because the characteristics of the circuit are similar to Monte Carlo, we were quite competitive there, and we have soft and supersoft tyres, and that is normally the combination that we like most.

“It should be a good weekend us, but a victory is never easy, or is never close enough when we are fighting with Red Bull and McLaren. It’s going to be tough, but hopefully closer than some other races.”

Comparing Singapore with Monaco, Alonso added: “Driving technique, it’s a combination between Monte Carlo and a normal circuit, because Monte Carlo is very extreme, very low speed corners, and the way you drive there is a little bit more crazy in a way.

“Here you need to be for sure very precise and close to the walls, and at the same time there is a little bit of room to take care of the tyres, and a little bit of strategy etc, because it’s a wide circuit, and quite a good street circuit.”

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  1. Mon Pen's avatar Mon Pen

    When he says “aggressive with the strategies” does he mean picking what lap Massa has to crash on?

  2. pollerunner's avatar pollerunner

    Ouch, not nice but surely he did not know last time:-)

  3. Please, he is far better than Massa, anyways! 🙂

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