Dragging myself away from two Spaniards slugging it out in Paris to another one in Canada, here’s an extract form Andrew Benson’s BBC piece: -
…. Fernando Alonso believes he is in a position to potentially win the Canadian Grand Prix despite starting in sixth place on the grid.
Alonso said he needs to beat …..Vettel, who is 29 points ahead in the championship and on pole.
"We start in a position that gives us all the chances to win the race if we are quick enough," Alonso said.
"We need to get it back on the right way and score many points and show the potential in the car."
……"We don't know what the conditions will be in the race, but this year we saw Monaco and here again that we are not super-competitive in intermediate tyre conditions.
"And in cold conditions also when we put on the dry tyres it's even worse. Same for Lotus as well. We saw they were struggling."
……..The Ferrari's low tyre wear means the car struggles to generate tyre temperature in cool and damp conditions…….
Alonso said: "There are some teams that are able to make the tyre get up to temperature very quickly and then they struggle in the race because they destroy the tyres, and it is the opposite for Lotus and us.
"Difficult to understand the reason because sometimes you don't know why this happens. But we are happy with our car.
…….Alonso said Ferrari had made a mistake in doing only one lap on the first of his two runs in final qualifying rather than two - and admitted he had made errors as well.
"People did two plus two," Alonso said. "We did one plus two and I think we missed a little bit of lap time there and when I put new tyres for the second attempt I locked up in Turn 10 and lost a lot of time, so a little bit of mixed mistakes."
So everyone made mistakes yesterday, got that out of the way; onwards and upwards…..
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