Spaniard trims Sebastian Vettel's lead with home victory
Monday 13 May 2013 12:42, UK
Fernando Alonso has identified Mercedes as the favourites to win the upcoming Monaco GP despite lapping a stricken Lewis Hamilton during his resounding victory in Sunday's race at Barcelona.
At Ferrari, the situation is reversed, with Alonso yet to qualify on the front-row this season and only fifth for this week's race. Sundays, though, are an altogether different matter with the Ferrari appearing to boast superior race pace to any of its rivals. If Alonso is ever to be crowned Champion while in red, it will surely be this year. "This year we have in our hands a package that maybe is not the fastest, still not the fastest but we are working on that," he reflected. "But definitely on Sundays it's a very competitive team package, let's say. We are not the quickest over one lap, maybe we don't set the fastest time in the race but we have fantastic strategy people, fantastic pitstops, the starts, tyre degradation. We have many ingredients to have a competitive car to fight for the Championship. "In the four years in Ferrari maybe it's true that this is the one we feel more confident with but we are not happy still with the performance of the car and we want to have a good and aggressive developing programme for the next races." Gauntlet down.
