Fernando Alonso says he has no plans have change his approach now that the title battle has closed up because he has been pushing hard all season.
The Spaniard’s lead in the championship has dwindled to just four points after his early retirement in Japan.
“I think we have been pushing from the first test in the winter, so nothing has changed in the last five races,” he said in Korea today. “We just need to keep doing the things we’ve been doing so far. I think it has nearly been a perfect championship for us at the moment, with good strategies, good starts, good approach to the races.
“Everything we had in our hands on Sunday, we maximised the points. We had one zero in Spa and one zero in Suzuka, but things completely outside of our team, so apart from that we don’t need to change too many things.
“We were fighting in all the races the maximum we can, approaching the races to maximise the points we have available. Sometimes we were on the podium, sometimes we were fourth, sometimes we were fifth and this will not change now. I don’t think we can over-drive or over-do what is available for us.”
Alonso said that he’d had his fair share of bad luck lately: “Now we have lost many points, in the last four races let’s say, because at Spa we had a DNF which we had nothing to do with. In Monza we had a Q3 problem, and started in tenth, and in Suzuka we had a puncture at the start, in the first corner.
“All these last four races, in which we lost a lot points, I think are just some unlucky situations. Things normally change, they go up and down. Hopefully our bad run will finish and we will start a run of good runs until the end.”
He added that there wasn’t much new on the F2012 for this weekend.
“Not many updates, obviously it has been only four days from Suzuka to here so we will try to set up the car as best we can for this race, this layout. But, I remain reasonably confident that we will be competitive.
“We’ve been more or less competitive in the last eight, 10 races – maybe not the fastest but always in position to fight for podiums etcetera. I think here will be no different.”
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