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This weekend will be special, says Alonso
Two-time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso will take in his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver this weekend and the Spaniard has admitted it is going to be very special for him to race in front of the fanatical tifosi at their home track.
Alonso has finish on the podium five times this season and has won two races - if you include the German Grand Prix, where Felipe Massa yielded position after being told his team-mate was ‘faster’.
That has potentially landed Ferrari in hot water as it has resulted in today’s World Motor Sport Council hearing as the use of team orders in F1 is prohibited (see separate story - Ferrari poised for team orders hearing).
Whatever happens in Paris though, the Scuderia are almost certain to race at Monza and Alonso has done well there in the past, finishing second in 2005 and winning in 2007, something he would no doubt love to replicate this Sunday.
“I am here in Maranello getting ready for a special event, my first Italian Grand Prix as a Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver,” Alonso wrote in his diary on the official Ferrari website. “From a technical point of view, Monza is a very different race to all the others: its long straights require a very low level of downforce and, as a consequence, unique aerodynamic elements.
“But clearly, this is not the only thing that makes Monza special: it is Ferrari’s home race and even if ours is a team that tackles every Grand Prix in the same way, giving it our best shot, always trying to win, there is no doubt that everyone in Maranello really wants to do well in front of our fans.
“You can see that on everyone’s faces, especially as, mixed in with the fans in the grandstands, many of our people will have their family and friends watching,” he summed-up.
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