Ferrari is still pushing hard to give Fernando Alonso a title-winning Ferrari for the final back-to-back head-to-head with Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n
With Red Bull and Vettel’s qualifying problems allowing Alonso to claw back 3 points in Abu Dhabi, the Spaniard is still 10 points adrift with just Austin and Brazil to go.<\/p>\n
And with the red F2012 still not a match for the Adrian Newey-penned RB8, Alonso said after finishing second in Abu Dhabi: “We need to keep working and in Maranello they work day and night to bring new parts.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, the Spanish sports daily Marca reports that, following two similar straightline aerodynamic outings recently, Ferrari has been back in action at the Idiada facility in Spain.<\/p>\n
At the wheel of the car was Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who as well as being Force India’s test driver is also in Ferrari’s development ‘academy’.<\/p>\n
Marca said Bianchi was testing a new rear wing and diffuser, while other Spanish reports said the F2012 featured even more new parts than that.<\/p>\n
“With Fernando, you don’t have to give him the best car,” Marc Gene, another Ferrari test driver, told El Confidencial.<\/p>\n
“You just have to give him one with which he can fight the best car, and he will do the rest.<\/p>\n
“The team is working hard to give him the best car possible.”<\/p>\n
Mark Webber, Vettel’s teammate but a better friend of Alonso’s, said recently that if it rains as the championship showdown looms, punters might be wise to put money on the Spaniard.<\/p>\n
Gene said: “The forecast for the US and Brazil suggests that they could be wet races, and we know that the Ferrari has proved a very reliable car when water appears.”<\/p>\n
The first title showdown will be at Austin’s brand new Circuit of the Americas this weekend.<\/p>\n
A local meteorologist told the Austin American Statesman newspaper: “The best rain chances come Saturday evening into Sunday, but they are still very slight, about 20 per cent.”<\/p>\n
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