{"id":16662,"date":"2012-09-24T07:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16662"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:14:32","slug":"alonso-urges-ferrari-to-improve-struggling-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-urges-ferrari-to-improve-struggling-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso urges Ferrari to improve ‘struggling’ car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso has urged Ferrari to give him a better car to keep defending his diminishing lead in the world championship.<\/p>\n

\"Fernando-Alonso\"The Spaniard saw his 37-point lead become 29 on Sunday, as Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won under the Singapore lights.<\/p>\n

Alonso, despite going into the race weekend with high hopes, could manage just third place at the chequered flag, having qualified fifth.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, before arriving in Singapore, I expected more,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think we were not very competitive this weekend.”<\/p>\n

The points damage, however, would have been higher had pole sitter and runaway leader Lewis Hamilton not broken down with a gearbox failure.<\/p>\n

“Of the four or five (championship) contenders, we lost points with one, with the other three we increased our advantage,” said Alonso, looking on the bright side.<\/p>\n

But with Red Bull and particularly McLaren fielding more competitive packages in Singapore, the 31-year-old admitted Ferrari needs to up its game.<\/p>\n

“For sure, we need to improve the performance we saw here,” Alonso said before leaving Singapore.\u00a0 “We struggled all weekend.”<\/p>\n

Team boss Stefano Domenicali agrees with Alonso that the Maranello based squad needs to improve the F2012.<\/p>\n

“Having said that,” said the Italian, “we mustn’t overreact as it’s better to bring a few updates that work rather than bringing too many.”<\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso has urged Ferrari to give him a better car to keep defending his diminishing lead in the world championship. The Spaniard saw his 37-point lead become 29 on Sunday, as Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won under the Singapore lights. Alonso, despite going into the race weekend with high hopes, could manage just third …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16663,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662\/revisions\/16663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}