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The last race of the Formula 1 World, that of Brazil , gave the final blow to Ferrari . Fernando Alonso could not be finished runner and end the fourth year, his position at Interlagos, and Felipe Massa finished the year without a single podium . The Italian team needs to take a radical turn in 2012, they expect their drivers because without a competitive car can not beat the Red Bull and McLaren .

It did not rain and there was no miracle in Brazil’s Interlagos circuit. Fernando Alonso finished the Formula 1 World Championship 2011 in fourth place , a blow to his team, Ferrari, the oldest and most famous of the grid and has failure, no excuses, red fireball in this season. Will have to see if they recover the lost ground for the next year because not only is much higher than Red Bull, McLaren is also less, but enough. To be a runner, Alonso needed to win the last race and Jenson Button were room, or be second and that Britain was seventh, or finish third in his Ferrari and the McLaren did not pass the eighth.

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The Spaniard believes that with a bit more luck at peak times would not be so far from the fight for the World Cup. Alonso called the Mclaren as ‘indestructible’ and accuses him Button left out of the Canadian Grand Prix.

Alonso retired on lap 37 due to impact with the car of Jenson Button (McLaren) and that was the Spaniard’s car standing still next to the fence. This left the Spaniard said goodbye to their aspirations practically fight for the 2011 World Cup. “It was an unfortunate race. I hope the next is more fortunate. The Ferrari this weekend has been very quick in the dry, and this was the first race in the rain we’ve had all year,” he lamented.

For Alonso is “testable facts rather than feelings” to show that the car is improving, but in today’s race circumstances were against him, as told in the first half of the race wheels “intermediate” when rained.

Alonso also said the incident forced him to retire: “I think it measured a bit poorly and I have been swept away, so the race is over there for me, but they are difficult conditions on a track very slippery, and I I took the brunt. “

The Spanish driver of Ferrari regretted having finished the race without points, but felt that “luck comes and goes” and noted that when the wealth “is paid to what we are removing this year, we will win the World Cup half-year.”

No strategy failed

In addition, the Spaniard downplayed the strategic error of Ferrari, as he felt that the Italian team tried to risk but went wrong, because “if it comes out well, and those who chose not to change, now would be a phenomenon “he confessed.

After the race in Canada, Alonso stays at 92 points of championship leader, Germany’s Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) and is fifth in the drivers’ standings with 69 points.

Grazed him in the first free but was in the second round when Ferrari to break the McLaren and Red Bull in the Monaco street circuit. The Spanish excelled in five tenths Vettel, championship leader. Alguersuari could only be the seventeenth.

The characteristics of the street circuit of Monte Carlo, where aerodynamics is less significant and the use of soft tires and super soft has made the Ferrari 150 º Italy in the most competitive car of all in the hands of Fernando Alonso has not had rival on the streets of the principality.

Without the torment of the hard tire, with Alonso lost a second per sector, and the new super soft tires, the Ferrari driver had the best time of the day, relegating the Briton Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) to one tenth of second, almost two German Nico Rosberg, whose Mercedes is always going well in training and then sinks in Carrera. Was fourth fastest time for Jenson Button, McLaren confirmed that the above are always willing to fight for fifth victory and has been for Vettel, half a second.

Despite the post and the difference achieved, we can not rule out the Red Bull, which will remain the enemy to beat in Saturday’s qualifying session. While Vettel has been shooting regularly, his teammate, Australian Mark Webber, could only do three laps in the morning and a problem in the afternoon shift and had problems with the KERS.

Alguersuari (Toro Rosso) has not been lucky. We corresponded for your car test driver, Australian Daniel Ricciardo, precisely at the circuit where he has to shoot for more confidence and get closer to the safety rails, without hitting them. When morning came she had a small bump on the corner of Ste Devote, but fortunately was able to return to workshops to repair the car and then could roll in a repeat visitor. Alguersuari completed this practice session in seventeenth position, two seconds and six-tenths of Alonso and two tenths of a teammate, the Swiss Sebastien Buemi.

It has not been a good day for Hispania, Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi was doing very good times in the morning, at the exit of the tunnel, almost to the entrance of the harbor entrance variant, played against the protections of the left side of the track. Mechanics to repair the damage to the car, not many, they found a fault in the hydraulic system and could not shoot in the second session, while his companion, the Indian Narain Karthikeyan has not found the rhythm, has been the last to seven seconds and on Saturday may have trouble overcoming the qualifying time.

The activity for Formula One will return next Saturday with the free 3 and the qualifying session, after the tradition preserved in Monaco on Thursday but has not been a public holiday, Ascension will be held next week.

Alonso seems paid to fifth place in qualifying. This season has been full from this position on the grid, but his Ferrari can not hope, for the moment more. In Turkey, despite improvements in the car, it seemed he could repeat this result, as both Mercedes and Renault had expressed much higher than the Ferrari during free practice. However, a new miracle of the made it possible for both Button, with a McLaren, Schumacher, a Mercedes, and Petrov, with Renault, departing on race behind him.

In qualifying the difference between the cars of the noble was reduced. Only Red Bull are still several steps ahead of other competitors. Of the rest, you could see the Ferrari racing side by side both with McLaren in Turkey appears to have stalled, as with Mercedes, who have confirmed the improvements showed in the previous Grand Prix of China.

This time, Alonso did not need to use two sets of soft rubber in Q2 to make the cut and had two attempts for their assault on the pole, or a better position on the grid. After the first, Alonso was fourth (0802) behind Vettel (1:25.049), Webber (0405) and Hamilton (0515), but ahead of Button. Such was the superiority of the Red Bull that both Vettel and Webber got out of the RB7 before the session was over.

In the second attempt of the ‘fatal’ best stand was Nico Rosberg, who surprised Hamilton in third place behind the Red Bull. Alonso chose to abort his return to find that their time would not improve his previous record and so save you turn your tires.

For its part, Alguersuari finished seventeenth in preferring not to use a second set of soft tires in Q2 and thus have him in the race. Liuzzi starts from the tenth row of the grid and from the eleventh Karthikeyan. Both benefited from the breakdown of Kobayashi in Q1 and the penalty of five positions to D’Ambrosio.

Fernando Alonso, who finished in seventh place in the Grand Prix of China, said that they had better careers and better Sunday. It hopes that his team continues to work to better reach the next round in Turkey.

“We have had better careers, better Sunday. We knew it would be difficult. In Malaysia it was a nice surprise performance of the car on Sunday, we could fight for the podium, and today was a bad surprise as we were going slowly,” he added Spanish rider.

“We could at any time be near the front. At the start I lost a position, then after the first pit stop I lost twelve or thirteen seconds behind Michael Schumacher and now you pick up the first group. I could do more and try to take advantage and maximum points, “he added.

On the tactic explained: “It’s easy after the race to see what could go better, but I’m sure that between two and three (stops) the final position is the same, because you’re too slow with two and are very slow to three. With two are a tad slower and you save 25 seconds of a stop and three going a second or half a second faster each lap, but you have to make another stop, which eventually puts everything at par. I do not think things have changed. “

Webber said Alonso “if I had done two, three or four, would have made the podium too, because you have a car that is two seconds faster.” Continue Reading »