News Details

Alonso warns Spanish fans podium is unlikely

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso is telling his local fans to keep their expectations low for this Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. The two-time former Formula One champion downplayed his third-place finish three weeks ago in China and said progress is going slow for Ferrari as it tries to make up ground on Mercedes. 'If I say we will fight for the podium I will probably be lying to you, and I don't want to disappoint our fans,' Alonso said on Thursday, a day before practice begins at the season's first event in Europe. Alonso sits third in the standings with 41 points after Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton swept the first four races of the season. Rosberg leads the standings with...
Full Story »
11y ago from F1Pulse.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Maldonado targeting top five in Spain

Pastor Maldonado believes he can score a top five finish for Lotus in the...
11y ago from Crash.net

Spain has been a happy hunting ground for Ferrari over...

Fernando Alonso won the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix Sunday sees the 44th...
11y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Alonso writes off podium chances

Fernando Alonso thinks the gap to Mercedes will come down slowly Sutton...
11y ago from espnF1.com

Grosjean: E22 is getting there

Lotus F1 Team Romain Grosjean believes that Lotus is making progress with...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Alex Palou earns IndyCar pole at Barber

Saturday afternoon at Barber Motorsports Park was devoted to IndyCar...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Will Power’s brake pedal went ‘to the floor’ in...

Will Power suffered a heavy crash in IndyCar qualifying, ending his...
14h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Sources: Why football's 'next superstar' snubbed...

Chelsea and Arsenal registered an interest in the transfer of Nico Paz,...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Latest Arsenal injury news as another Gunners star...

There has been yet another Arsenal player withdrawing from international...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal favourites to sign 21-year-old German striker...

Arsenal are reportedly in pole position to sign Club Brugge star Nicolo...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Exclusive: Arsenal favourites to sign 'future of...

Arsenal are the favourites for the transfer of talented young German...
5h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.