Fernando Alonso says he isn’t worrying too much about his and Ferrari’s poor start to the season, denying it has dented their chances of fighting for the title toward the end of the season.
The Spaniard has done the numbers, comparing this year to last and, by his reckoning, he is doing better than he did in 2010 when he came within four points of his third drivers’ title.
“You know I like playing with numbers – and as I travelled backwards and forwards between home, Maranello and Turkey, I made a comparison between my first four races of last year and those of this year in the corresponding grands prix.
“What came out of this little game was that compared to 2010 I’m eight points short (49 versus 41) but in the same four races, this year I’ve brought home 13 more points compared to last year (41 versus 28).”
In part, that’s because of the cancellation of the Bahrain GP which Alonso won, but he’s happy to report that there are plenty of races to make up the massive deficit to Sebastian Vettel.
“It’s true that my current gap to the top of the drivers championship is much greater (52 points) compared to what I had after Shanghai 2010 (11 points) but I well recall that after Silverstone we were 47 points away and we only had eight races left.
“Today we still have 15 grands prix to come. This shows that you can look at the same thing in two different, even completely opposite ways. What matters are results and we’ve started to make the podium: we must do that regularly and if so I’m convinced that we will again be able to fight for the title.”
