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Fernando Alonso has once again urged Ferrari to take risks in the final stint of this year's World Championship
The Spaniard, who was fighting for the World title up until the final lap of last season's finale, currently finds himself down in fourth place in the Drivers' Championship, 89 points behind reigning World Champ Sebastian Vettel.
And Alonso reckons the only way Ferrari have any chance of beating the Red Bull driver to this year's crown is to go all out.
"We didn't program anything to be conservative at the beginning, or more aggressive now," said Alonso.
"It's just that the way things have worked out in the last couple of races, we've been lucky with strategies and they've worked out okay.
"With this year's tyres and the degradation, you need a bit of luck with strategy because tyre behaviour is very unpredictable from lap to lap.
"With 70 to 80 pit stops in general for the whole grid, you catch people when they go into the pits or they're coming out.
"There is nothing we can lose now if we take risks, like in the last race in Hungary where it was wet and dry, so you can take a bit more risk.
"In the past, if you want to fight for the Championship, normally you wait for someone to put on dry tyres when it's wet, or vice versa.
"Now we can be the first because we've nothing to lose."
But, however, Ferrari play it in the final eight races, Alonso admits his chances of success rest on him claiming maximum points at as many races as possible.
"Until the maths say otherwise, and if there is a possibility, then we will fight," said Alonso.
"We've seen many times in Formula One strange things happen, and in two, three races with the new points system, anything could happen.
"So we will not give up at this point. We will try to win every race.
"With four or five races to go, if there is still a possibility we will try and go for it.
"At that stage, if it is not possible, then it will be time to give up, but not now with the amount of points still on the table."
Source: Planet-F1
Fernando Alonso lose driver's parade because was driving the Ferrari 375 F1 at British Grand Prix 2011
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Fernando Alonso has joined Rubens Barrichello in vowing to lose some weight ahead of the 2011 season.
As in 2009, the return of heavy KERS systems is once again putting a higher premium on driver weight, despite moves to further increase the overall car-plus-driver minimum weight.
A report in Spain’s El Mundo Deportivo said Ferrari driver Alonso - who currently weighs in at 68 kilograms - wants to lose between 2 and 3 kg before Bahrain in March.
"The fans should get ready for me being thinner," the 29-year-old smiled during Ferrari’s Christmas celebrations at Maranello.
"With the return of KERS, every kilo a driver can trim can be used as ballast. So I’m going to lose a little weight," confirmed Alonso.
"I will also improve my athletic preparation for the longest championship in history because it will be necessary to be fully fit for ten months," he added.
Williams’ Barrichello admitted recently that his engineers had asked him to lose some weight before 2011 for the same reason.
Source: NextgenAuto
A road-crash victim's foundation is calling for Lewis Hamilton to be banned from Swiss roads.
In the wake of the 2008 world champion's so-called 'hoon' hire-car driving incident in March, his girlfriend told a celebrity magazine this month that the pair remain wild at the wheel. "He's like, 'Babe, you're driving with your knees!" singer Nicole Scherzinger told Maxim magazine. "I'm doing my makeup, changing the radio ..."
The Pussycat Doll also joked that the pair would be banned if it emerged how fast they had driven in Switzerland, where Hamilton rents an apartment. In response, the safety group RoadCross revealed it has asked the local attorney general to revoke Hamilton's Swiss driving license, also because the McLaren driver crashed after running a stop sign last year. A spokesman said: "Public figures should be conscious that they are role models and adopt exemplary driving behaviour." Swiss politician Pius Segmuller told Blick newspaper that he supports the campaign. "I think they (Hamilton and Scherzinger) show an absolute lack of character. With these statements, he is a bad role model for all the young people who idolise him." Source: Motorsport.com
The Spaniard, who was fighting for the World title up until the final lap of last season's finale, currently finds himself down in fourth place in the Drivers' Championship, 89 points behind reigning World Champ Sebastian Vettel.
