Alonso happy with F10 progress

Fernando Alonso wrapped up his second test of the new Ferrari F10 yesterday ay Jerez before handing the car over to Felipe Massa to complete the second group test of the season.

The double world champion ended his second day of running seventh fastest but despite the lapping 1.4 s off the ultimate pace, is relatively upbeat.

"We worked on different fronts, trying to understand how the car behaves under different conditions,” Alonso said. “It’s important to find the right compromise for the set up so that everything works well during the qualifying, when the tank is pretty much empty, and in the race, when we’ll start with a full load.

"We’re really satisfied with what we’ve done during these two days," he continued. "We’ve driven many kilometres without any reliability problems. We put many components under pressure over these five days and we didn’t have any problems at all. Furthermore the car is really easy to drive under all conditions.

“As far as the tyres are concerned I think that the indications we’ve received these days have to be treated carefully, because the temperatures are very different from the ones we’ll have in Bahrain at the first race. Until now the work we had to do, we’ve done. Next week we’ll work on the performance."