Alonso happy with Ferrari's position at Monza

Fernando Alonso Did he lose his temper with his team during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix? If the Asturian spoke in Italian with his engineers, the Scuderia driver would have shown himself annoyed by the strategy put in place by the team. Maranello which consisted of his teammate Felipe Massa riding in front of him so that he could benefit from the latter's aspiration. “You idiots. » These are the comments that the Spaniard refutes, indicating on the contrary that he was satisfied with the tactics used and that he had thanked his team for the work accomplished. “I explained on the radio that Felipe was a bit far away if we wanted to do that. So they told him to slow down a little and we were able to start the attempt at the same distance as usual. I thank Felipe, we already did it in Q1 and Q2 and it also worked in Q3. »

It is nevertheless curious that it was his teammate who was the fastest during the last qualifying session, Felipe Massa having taken fourth place on the grid ahead of the second F138. But Fernando Alonso seems satisfied with the result obtained at the end of qualifying since the Italian cars are not separated from the Red Bull that by the Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg. “The hardest part for us is Saturdays.”, recalls the Spaniard. “We still have three or four cars between us and the Red Bulls. So we overtake these cars, (Red Bull) then has ten seconds ahead of us and we stay a little close to this gap. So we are very happy today because we can hope not to have all these cars in front of us at the first corner. »

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