Fernando Alonso doesn’t expect Ferrari to have made much progress with their car for the Chinese Grand Prix, despite a handful of updates.
The Spaniard, who currently leads the championship after taking a sensational victory in Malaysia last time out, believes the performance provided by the new items, will be matched by Ferraris rivals.
“I’m not expecting any surprises in this race, compared to what we saw in Australia and Malaysia,” Alonso wrote. “It’s true almost three weeks have gone by, but that does not mean there was enough time to completely turn the car around in such a short time: we will have a few small updates, but nothing particularly significant and on top of that, we can expect that the other teams will also bring some new parts.
“Therefore, we won’t change our approach to this Grand Prix: to get a good result, we will need to concentrate on ourselves, trying to be perfect and to exploit every possibility that might come our way over the weekend.”
Alonso says it’s useless making predictions at this time, but the aim is to get the best result possible to ensure he doesn’t lose any ground to his rivals.
“I don’t want to come out with statements that our aim is to finish in this or that position, as these discussions are not worth the time spent on them,” he added. “We will have to do the maximum and bring home as many points as possible: a bit like ants who start something one day, knowing it will produce something worthwhile in the future.”
