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Published on 12th January 2012 16:14
Fernando Alonso is not the sort to bandy around predictions and that was again the case this morning in his first press conference of 2012. So far, none of the cars that will take part in the World Championship has turned a wheel on track and so it is very difficult for the Spaniard to say who will be the ones to beat:
“I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t feel I can make any predictions. Theoretically, it will be Red Bull, but I say that based only on the fact that, for the past two years, they have won both titles. I reckon we will have to wait for at least two or three races, which means up to Shanghai, to really understand what the hierarchy is. Maybe some people think that the tests mean something, but that is not the case. On paper, we have everything in place to do well, but I can be neither optimistic nor pessimistic, partly because I have only seen the new car in the wind tunnel and from the diagrams on the engineers’ computers. I don’t think there will be a big difference compared to the other cars, because the regulations are very clear, but there will definitely be some innovations and good technical ideas.”
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