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Alonso: winning won’t be easy
Fernando Alonso is expecting a difficult race today, Sunday. The Spaniard, who scored the maximum number of points at last week’s German Grand Prix, is over a second behind on the Red Bull men and is realistic enough to admit he is probably not able to fight for victory.
Speaking about the gap with Red Bull drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber Alonso said: “Today we are 1.2 seconds off the pace, so even if we have a better race pace, it may still not be enough to fight for victory but we will see. Anything can happen. There is a 70 lap race, a very demanding circuit for drivers, for gearboxes, engines, brakes. It is not an easy circuit.
“We’ve seen very interesting races here in Hungary, so we will fight until the chequered flag.”
The Ferrari driver furthermore said: "The start will be an important part of the race, first corner, but there is nothing you can plan. It will depend on how the car starts tomorrow afternoon. Sometimes we did some very good starts, sometimes not so good, so fingers crossed tomorrow it is one of the good ones. But I will be happy to be on the podium. There is no doubt
"I think that knowing how the weekend has gone so far, winning the race would be a dream, but we need to be realistic, we need to know that there are two cars much quicker than us, so at the moment we deserve third position in qualifying, and theoretically we deserve third position in the race, so we will see what we can do."
Fernando Alonso has already won the Hungarian Grand Prix once when he claimed victory in 2003.
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