Fernando Alonso [#14]

[peki]

ponovno majstorski odrađena utrka.

[Sanel]

Bravo Alonso , uradio je sve kako sam ja napisao , dobar start, zatim čuvanje guma pa je na kraju prvog stinta pritiskao i prošao kroz box Hamiltona.

Baš si mislim gledajući trku danas da ferrarijev pit wall čita ovaj forum

[Vuksa_KC]

Fernando Alonso: "We could have jumped Nico and Mark, if we had stayed out a few laps longer on super softs. But couldn't predict tyres."

Nema rizika, nema profita.

[Forza]

How is Alonso leading the championship with that car and what happens next?
Fernando Alonso sits on top of the drivers’ standings this morning after his third place finish in the Monaco Grand Prix.

But it is more than surprising that Alonso is in this position, given how poor the Ferrari car was in pre-season testing and the early season races. So how has it happened? Consistency has certainly been the key for Alonso who, along with Hamilton is the only driver to have scored points in every race so far. But there’s more to it than that. The tyres play their part in this story, inevitably, the misfortunes of others have their part to play too.

Alonso’s lowest scoring race was China, where he finished only 9th, but he’s been on the podium three times, one of them a win in Malaysia and where no better result has been possible, he’s managed to pick up a fifth and a seventh place.

In contrast his rivals have been more erratic: Webber and Vettel have both had a non points finish, Button has had three non finishes. Hamilton has scored in every race, with three third places early on, but then pit stop and operational issues hit him in the last three races as well as a lack of pace on race day.

Key factors in their favour are that Ferrari has consistently the best starts and the best pit stops of any team at the moment. Alonso has made up many places at the start: 13 places in the first five races and another one on Sunday in Monaco, Massa has made up 23 in total. They’ve had to do this because the Ferrari hasn’t qualified very well; going into the Monaco GP on Sunday Alonso was averaging only 8th on the supergrid, which aggregates all the drivers’ qualifying times – behind the Red Bulls, McLarens, Mercedes and Grosjean.

This is the key area where Ferrari need to improve in the second half of the season, as the leading teams will get on top of the tyre issues and we’ll start to see a more consistent picture in races. To consolidate his position Ferrari need to give Alonso a car that will qualify more strongly.

“If you are fighting for pole position, and even on pole position, then the race is totally different,” said team boss Stefano Domenicali after the race. “This is something we need to keep focusing on to make sure things are going in the right direction. In terms of the pure performance of the car, we had a very difficult start. We have a situation where we are not happy and where we want to improve the car because we have seen other cars at the moment have pole positions, and we do not. So that has to be a target for the team.”

Alonso revealed how he has been approaching each weekend, “We wanted to be ahead of Hamilton and Vettel this weekend and we did it,” he said post race. “In this championship, at every race you have to concentrate on different drivers and next time we’ll need to keep ahead of Webber. We’re on top of the table; if you’d said that to me after Melbourne, I’d never have believed it. We have to keep improving the car because we are not yet the fastest. The next two weeks will be very important.”

Ferrari has clearly improved the car a lot in traction out of low speed corners, which helped in Barcelona and Monaco and will help out of the chicanes and hairpins of Montreal. However another key weak point is straight line speed and this is not straight forward to fix.

Ferrari has a major update coming for Montreal, and their history in recent years shows that they’ve often taken a significant upturn around June. The 2010 campaign, for example, started slowly but from Canada onwards Alonso won races and was in the championship hunt.

This time round he’s already ahead on points and, if Ferrari repeat their progress of 2010, he must be considered the favourite for the title.

While the other top teams are putting on updates to find more speed and then having to take them off again because the priority is to set the car up first to extract the best from the tyres, Ferrari seems to have a good way with the tyres, particularly at the end of the stints; Alonso again made up a place, on Hamilton, in Monaco thanks to pace at the end of the stint.

It was noticeable also that of the front runners, who were struggling to get the new soft tyres warmed up after the pit stop on Sunday, Alonso’s tyres were working several laps earlier than Webber and Rosberg. He acknowledged this after the race.

Expert observers at the weekend noted that Alonso had the right technique for driving the Pirelli supersofts, which can get easily damaged by spinning the wheels on corner exit. Alonso seemed to have appreciated that and was getting the cars straight before hitting the throttle, thus looking after them better.

Hindsight shows that he could have jumped Webber and Rosberg at the pit stop by staying out a couple of laps longer on his supersofts. And then with his superior tyre warm up, he would have driven away from them in the lead in the second part of the race for what would have been a dominant win.

But as he said afterwards, no-one would have predicted those tyre warm up issues, so Ferrari cannot consider it a mistake or a win that got away.

[_dreamer_]

[Kenny]

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Molim te reci mi da je Photo Shop

[_dreamer_]

Nije Kenny photoshop, to sam pokupio s njegovog twittera

[Forza]

Work, the key in 2012.

Alonso: “I’m very happy and enjoying the moment, but working very, very hard: there’s still plenty to do”

Madrid, 31 May - The Scuderia Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Marc Gené, and the General Manager of ARP, Lorenzo Bassetti, answered various questions this morning from the press during the opening of Ferrari’s store on calle Serrano, nº6, in the commercial heart of Madrid.

Both for the Scuderia and Alonso if there is one key word that describes 2012, that’s “work”. The Asturian driver’s words confirmed this as he stated that he was happy as a result of his lead in the Drivers’ Championship, but never forgetting that “there’s a lot to do”. "I’m happy and enjoying the moment but working very, very hard because, although we are leading the Championship, we could easily be sixth or seventh and quite a few points off the lead. So there’s still plenty of work to do. We’re happy with how the season has begun in terms of points but not so much in terms of the competitiveness of the car, since we’ve suffered a lot in the first races to be on top”.

“In Canada we want to confirm this improvement and be competitive in a more ‘normal’ circuit, because Monaco is unique due to its characteristics and Barcelona has very quick corners. Canada and Valencia are going to be two very important tests for us to see if we can really put both Ferraris in Q3, like we did in Monaco, and opt to be in the top places. We’ve brought some upgrades to Canada.This is a race both on and off the track. All the big teams are going to bring new parts so let’s see whose works best. We’ve tried to extract the most of what we had and our rivals have let their guards down. Hopefully in Canada we will confirm the improvement shown in Barcelona and Monaco. This year, two or three tenths make you lose or gain five or six places, because everything is very close. That’s why you have to take new parts to every race and improve against the clock back in the factory”, added the Scuderia driver.

The Monaco Grand Prix was a huge challenge in terms of improvising team strategies. The unexpected weather changes, with the rain present, didn’t allow the teams to carry out their usualtyre tests in the practice sessions, a situation which was aggravated by thedebut of the supersofts. Fernando started fifth, but managed to gain two placesand finished third, on the podium, and winning some valuable points which helped him to move up ahead of closest rivals and sit on his own on top of the classification.

Asked whether he would have been able to win the raceif he’d stayed on the track rather than having come in to change tyres, Alonsothoroughly expalined his theory: “It’s always easy to talk about tactics once the race is over. Surely if we had completed one more lap on Supersofts in Monaco we would have had a chance to win. But, of course, if they say to you before the race, when you’re preparing your strategy, that on lap 30 the Supersofts are going to perform better than any other tyre you wouldn’t have believed it. I would have bet anything against it”, he declared. And added: “Likewise, when you set a new pair of Softs in a pit stop, normally you fly for two or three laps. You’ve got fantastic grip. And we all faced problems with the heating up of tyres. Neither Webber, Rosberg nor myself were able to catch Vettel. Therefore, if we would have changed our tactics, Vettel and Rosberg wouldn’t have stopped either if they would have known the performance of the tyres. And we would have finished the race in the same manner”.

Another thing on the mind of many of the journalists who attended the opening of Ferrari’s store -which is made up of 500 square metres divided in two floors packed with all kinds of official objects of the Italian brand, and that perfectly combines the fighting spirit and history of the Scuderia-, was the reason as to why this Championship is so open, with six different winner in the first six races of the season.

For the Spanish driver the reason is "in part because of the rules and also because of the restrictions each year in the rules. When someone discovers something, the next year it’s banned. They’re limiting more and more every time the creativity or potential development of a car. We’re seeing more similar cars every time and it’s looking more like GP2 in the sense that there are more drivers. But, despite being a tight Championship, it’s Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari in that order in the Constructors. And in the six or seven first positions of the Drivers’ Championship, you’ve got the same drivers as last year. As a result of this, in a Championship that goes on for so long, you’re going to have the same drivers battling it out in the end”.

Alonso also shared his opinion regarding his teammate, Felipe Massa’s form, who he supports100% and admits he has “the necessary talent to fight for wins”. In fact, he showed signs of improvement in Monaco, proving to be very competitive throughout the weekend and achieving a sixth place in Sunday’s race. “It’s hard to think that Felipe won’t win many points in the second part of the season, that he won’t make podiums or fight for wins. He’s got the talent for it. It’sbeen an unfortunate start to the season because of a number of things: bad luck, a slower adaptation than before to the tyres… Felipe’s results weren’t normal. He’s got all my support. And he’s got all the support of the team to change the situation around. Or to change his results, because many times in practice or qualifying we’re very close but then in the race, because of the start or because he got hit, he would be towards the back early on. In Monaco it looks like his results changed, so we hope that from here on it will all go well for him”.

His teammate in the Scuderia and compatriot, Marc Gené, was also questioned by the journalists, who wanted to know the Catalan’s opinion with respect to the Asturian. “Now with Fernando I’ve been teammates with four World Champions: Schumacher, Raikkonen, Villeneuve in Le Mans, and now Fernando. I’ve always said it: he’s the most complete. He’s the best out of those who have competed against me or worked with me. He’s the best at making the most of difficult situations. And that’s why he is now the Championship leader. He’s a real team leader too. That’s why we’re extremely privileged at Ferrari to have him with us and to be able to work with him. It’s one of the few brands in the world that, independent of who is driving, has always had many fans around the world. But now in Spain, with the success of Fernando and Ferrari, the fans have multiplied”.

Lorenzo Bassetti, on his behalf, made an evaluation of the Spanish market in relation to the Ferrari brand: “Spain is a very important market for us, which is demonstrated by the amount of stores open in the country, six. After Italy, it’s the country with most outlets, we hope it will soon become the second insales too”.
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[Lord of the Ring]

Izvrstan start u Monacu

[Alonso Fernando]

Uh sekunda je falila da sjebe Alonsa.

[F1NAC]

tetovaža Alonsova :

[Alonso-champ]

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[Lord of the Ring]

Dobra tetovaza...al trebao je stavit ovo

[Cuky]

zašto to? da ima oči i na leđima pa da još bolji bude nego što sad jest (ako je to uopće moguće)?

[Chuck Norris]

zašto to? ?

I ja se pitam šta je pjesnik htio reći


I btw Cuky gdje je nestao damjan,sta si mu uradio?

[Alonso Fernando]

Dobra tetovaza...al trebao je stavit ovo
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I prije nego sam pogledao ispod tvog avatara sam nekako znao da si MS navijac,i nisam pogrijesio.

[spacedoc]

5 sezona je odvozio a da nije osvojio naslov ma to nema smisla bolje je da ode u penziju pogotovo ako popuši i ove godine

[dmarijon]

molim ne pisati bedastoće. ni na ovom forumu ni na ovoj temi.
najbolje bi bilo da svi vozači svake godine osvoje naslov.

Inače, pretprošle godine bio sam pola pola za alonso - vettel. Prošle sam se divio preciznosti i zagriženosti Vettela (možda i zato što me svojom lucidnom kontrolom cijele situacije podsjećao na Schumia u najboljim danima).
Ali ove godine, Alonso je stvarno.. jednostavno kao da odskače od ostalih. Kao da u glavi ima osjećaj koliko će gume trajati, koliko ih svakim krugom potroši... sve.
Kako je Kovalainen dobro primjetio: ove godine imamo samo jednu konstantu. To je da je Alonso uvijek pri vrhu.

[nando fan]

5 sezona je odvozio a da nije osvojio naslov ma to nema smisla bolje je da ode u penziju pogotovo ako popuši i ove godine

A u koliko je od tih 5 sezona bio u konkurentnom bolidu?

[Cuky]

u najmanje dvije...

[nando fan]

Jednom sa Mclarenom i jednom sa Ferarijem stim sto su ga oni u Ferariju zeznuli kad su ga pozvali u rani pit-stop.

[vidc]

da da. ferrari je kriv što je alonso izgubio naslov 2010., valjda što se više puta ponovi, možda jednog dana to i postane istina

[Chuck Norris]

Smarate i u ovoj temi i u temi Schumacher
Samo neka dječja prepucavanja između par navijača MS-a i FA-a

[Alonso-champ]

Bravo Chuck,zaboravio si reci i to jedni te isti non-stop,malo odu tamo pa onda se vrate vamo...bezveze,a znaju da nikad nece naci zajednicki jezik al oni jos uvijek rokaju jedne druge...

[vidc]

pa čemu služe forumi nego da se između ostalog vode i rasprave o takvim stvarima