Alonso prepared for the beginning of “mini-championship”

Fernando Alonso has stated that the remaining five races this season will feel like a “mini-Championship”, as the reigning Champion of Sebastian Vettel reduced the Spaniard’s lead at the top to only four points. Alonso hasn’t led a race since the German Grand Prix back in July, a race he won for Ferrari

After retiring from the Japanese Grand Prix on the opening lap, Fernando Alonso failed score any valuable World Championship points whilst major rival Sebastian Vettel romped to a dominant race victory. Although the Ferrari driver still leads the Drivers’ Championship, a similar result next weekend at Korea would see Alonso loose his lead at the top.

With only five races remaining in the season, many believe the Championship fight has become a two-horse race between the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso and the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel. Alonso believe’s this is the start of a “mini-Championship”, in which the Spaniard aims at scoring at least one point more than his nearest rivals at each of the remaining race weekends.

“Today, we were very unlucky: to finish a race like this, at the very first corner is really a shame.” Explained Fernando Alonso, remains in the lead of the Drivers’ Championship by only four points. “Contact from Raikkonen caused a puncture to the left rear tyre and my race ended there. Clearly, we must work a lot on the development of the car: I’m not worried, but we must react to the step forward that the other competitors have made. Now we start a sort of mini-championship, run over five Grands Prix. The aim will be to score at least one point more than all the others. What happened to us today could happen to the others next time: the wheel turns and that is what races are all about.”

With Red Bull supposedly mastering their own rendition of the Double-DRS device, Mark Webber and in particular Sebastian Vettel could be become unstoppable at the front in the closing stages of the season. Fernando Alonso won the inaugural Korean Grand Prix back in 2010, and will be striving to win once again next weekend as this unique season comes to a conclusion.

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