Fernando Alonso will start the Brazilian GP from eighth place, four places behind title rival Sebastian Vettel.
The Spaniard was keen to point out that he reached the podium from similar places in the last two events, adding that he needs a “chaotic” race.
“Nothing surprising, we started seventh in Abu Dhabi, ninth in the USA [before the penalties], and eighth here, so more or less the same. We’ll try to repeat the performance on Sunday and try to achieve the podiums we achieved in Abu Dhabi and Austin starting in those positions.
“So, an interesting race. Obviously we need some strange circumstances, we need a chaotic race in a way, with rain affecting it or something. Let’s hope we see something like that.
“Maybe the rain can help, but you never know. We need to push the maximum to enjoy tomorrow’s race, and as I said, try to be in the podium.”
He played the significance of any move towards a wet set-up: “Nothing changes in our days. I think F1 now is dominated by aerodynamics, the only thing you can change is you can put more downforce or less downforce on the car.
“We ran with maximum downforce in the dry and obviously it’s the same in the wet, so no big changes, or no one jumped today for a wet set-up, because there’s minimum changes.”
Adam Cooper F1 
I think this is going to be a fantastic race. 2 Mclarens out front, Webber ahead of Vettel, Massa chasing Vettel off the start line and Alonso always moves forward….and that’s before the rain comes.
Now let’s see if Ferrari is willing to make a real sacrafice. Masa wrecking Vettel at the start would help them a lot.
Massa wouldn’t deliberately t-bone Vettel, but if there’s a 50-50 move we know who needs to give it up first.