Alonso A sigh of relief At least second best

Fernando Alonso knows how important is his third place in Korea

Fernando Alonso for the balance of the weekend was objectively with the loss of the championship lead but is rather bad, but was the Ferrari star after a difficult race at the end happy. Finally he started fourth and thus on the dirty side and had doubts whether the tires would hold out. "With all these fears yet to reach the podium, I can breathe a big sigh of relief," said the double world champion.

Although no cure against Red Bull had grown, managed the Scuderia at least, to achieve the proclaimed goal to land immediately behind the team from Milton Keynes. "It is also true, of course, that I was not cited by the World Cup, but only six points behind his, does not mean much," Alonso made ​​it clear the same from its four-point lead before the Korean GP said.

Now there are 100 points to win and how many of them would go into the pocket of the Spaniard sat, alone, on the performance of the team. The trend agrees with the Ferrari star has been positive, including Ferrari in Yeongam was much closer to the peak than was the case in Suzuka and particularly in Singapore.

Regardless of Sebastian Vettel could win all of the last three races and collect as 75 points - but for sure he should feel still not loud Alonso. "If everything goes smoothly for so long, is bound to happen sooner or later something," said Alonso. He himself was. With a car in the middle of the battle for the title, which was never the fastest, giving him a lot of hope "It seems like were in a position to do something good."