![\"Fernando-Alonso-4\"](\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso-4.jpg\")
Lewis Hamilton, a title favourite with the dominant team Mercedes, downplayed the German squad’s superiority when he said at Sepang: “I’m sure Renault have not turned their engine up to max.<\/p>\nFernando Alonso has denied that Ferrari is yet to ‘turn its engine up’ in the 2014 season.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton, a title favourite with the dominant team Mercedes, downplayed the German squad’s superiority when he said at Sepang: “I’m sure Renault have not turned their engine up to max.<\/p>\n
“It’s the same with Ferrari.\u00a0 If you look at their apex speed, they have a good car.”<\/p>\n
According to Spaniard Alonso, however, that’s not right.\u00a0 “As far as the electrical side, yes, we are using the full power.<\/p>\n
“But in the early laps in Melbourne we had a problem that we were blocked and so it didn’t work fully,” he is quoted by El Mundo Deportivo.<\/p>\n
Alonso is referring to the energy-recovery side of the new ‘power unit’ that, in the opening phase of a grand prix, is automatically ‘blocked’ by the FIA.<\/p>\n
But the Ferrari-powered cars in Melbourne were without up to 100 horse power for the entire first stint until the pitstop, due to an FIA glitch.<\/p>\n
It is also clear that Ferrari’s ‘power unit’ is up to 13 kilograms overweight.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” Ferrari-powered Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez confirmed to Spain’s Marca, “but the positive thing is that this is a new world (in F1) and the possibilities for development are vast.”<\/p>\n
Alonso has won at Sepang in a Renault, a McLaren and a Ferrari, but he effectively ruled out a repeat of his surprise 2012 win this weekend.<\/p>\n
“This is formula one and anything can happen,” he is quoted by the EFE news agency, “but I think what we saw in 2012 was once in a lifetime.”<\/p>\n
Beyond that, he is not willing to talk too much about his 2014 prospects.<\/p>\n
“If I say I am happy with fourth place, someone will say that I am no longer hungry for results,” said Alonso.<\/p>\n
“And if I say that I am not happy, someone will have something to say about that too.”<\/p>\n
\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fernando Alonso has denied that Ferrari is yet to ‘turn its engine up’ in the 2014 season. Lewis Hamilton, a title favourite with the dominant team Mercedes, downplayed the German squad’s superiority when he said at Sepang: “I’m sure Renault have not turned their engine up to max. “It’s the same with Ferrari.\u00a0 If you …<\/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":[5262,149,93,5300,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399"}],"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=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21400,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}