Fernando Alonso was in upbeat mood today as he continued to insist that he can still win the World Championship.
Alonso says that Ferrari is pulling out all the stops for the end of the season.
“We believe and we trust in our job and our team,” he said in Abu Dhabi today. “I think we’ve shown many times that we don’t give up, we will fight until the end, and when the things become stressful, when the things become difficult, I think we can deliver our 100% and we’re sure that we will fight until the end. I think the team has a lot of experience, fighting for World Championships, everyone is very motivated.
“I think in India we saw some good signs of recovering in terms of pace compared to Red Bull, we still need a couple more tenths, especially on Saturday. But there is a little bit of a step here, something also in the USA. I think things go up and down for everybody. Four consecutive ups for Red Bull, so we think they will go down before long.”
Intriguingly Alonso was keen to point out that he didn’t expect to be able to beat Red Bull on pace, but wanted to be close enough to put pressure on Vettel – and take advantage of any mistakes.
“We tried to prepare for this race better than ever. Every race we do, but we know the importance of these three races, so we’ve made some good preparations. There are some new parts coming that we will have to check tomorrow.
“We don’t think that we will close the gap completely to Red Bull from India, and five days later in Abu Dhabi to be competing with them with the same performance, I think that is not any magic button in F1, or any magic part.
“But we will try to get close to put some more pressure. I think they’ve had a very easy four races so far, so they have a lot of margin and can do maybe little mistakes with not any penalty, and we want to be so close to them to take the opportunity of everything that they don’t do perfect. So we need to find perfection this weekend, or these next three weekends, and be very close to them and attack all the race.”
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Or Red Bull needs to find the opposite. Fernando and Ferrari have been fighting above their weight all year, though the car lacks the raw pace that the Red Bulls and Mclaren have shown the way the Scuderia have executed everything else this year is championship worthy.