News Details

Alonso more focused on Mercedes than Vettel

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso says keeping the 2013 title chase alive will not be his top priority in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix. Championship leader Sebastian Vettel would clinch his fourth straight title on Sunday if the Red Bull driver wins and Alonso, his closest rival, finishes ninth or worse. However, Alonso said he is more concerned with the race for the constructors' championship. Ferrari has 284 points, just one ahead of Mercedes with five races left. 'The aim is definitely not just to finish in the first eight to keep the championship alive, because if Vettel doesn't win here, he will do it in one of the next races,' Alonso said. 'Now we need to pick up points for second place...
Full Story »
11y ago from F1Pulse.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Alonso not content just to keep title alive

Fernando Alonso insists that he will not be looking to turn eighth on the...
11y ago from Crash.net

FP1: Mercedes lead incident filled first practice

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg led the first practice session for the...
11y ago from TheF1Times.com

Webber beats Vettel to claim first pole of 2013

Mark Webber has beaten team-mate Sebastian Vettel by a tenth of a second...
11y ago from TheF1Times.com

FP2: Vettel goes quickest ahead of Webber

Sebastian Vettel asserted his form over the field on Friday as he jumped...
11y ago from TheF1Times.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Colton Herta leaves IndyCar to pursue F1 with Cadillac...

The Cadillac F1 Team has announced that it has hired IndyCar star Colton...

Rinus VeeKay separates from Dale Coyne Racing

Rinus VeeKay will not race with Dale Coyne Racing next season after...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'He is a player who lights up the stadium' -...

Arsenal legend Nigel Winterburn has hailed the Gunners' new signing...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

New signing profile: Piero Hincapie

Following some late left-sided departures, Arsenal managed to squeeze in...
4h ago from Arseblog.com

Collymore's column: Mikel Arteta criticism, Isak and...

In his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, former Liverpool striker Stan...
12h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Episode 843 – Injuries

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In...
11h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Daniel Ricciardo sends fans wild as Ford announce...

Daniel Ricciardo has F1 fans all aflutter thanks... Read More »
4h ago from GPFans.com

Sky F1 pundit robbed ahead of Italian GP

A Sky F1 pundit has revealed that she was robbed... Read More »
6h ago from GPFans.com

V8 comeback on the table: FIA calls manufacturers to crisis...

Formula 1’s power unit manufacturers are set... Read More »
13h ago from F1i.com

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.