Formula One: ‘Title is beyond us’

VALENCIA: Fernando Alonso says that there is no chance of his catching Sebastian Vettel in the Formula One world championship race. Two-time world champion Alonso is yet to steer his Ferrari to a race victory this season. Alonso is 99 points adrift of Vettel in the drivers’ standings, a gap he says has to be considered insurmountable. “The gap is 99 points so the championship isn’t in our calculations at the moment,” said Alonso. “We need to take things race by race, try to win the races we go to and just wait for some mistakes from Red Bull.” But at the moment I don’t think we can think of the championship. We just need to see what happens in the last part of the season. We’re still eight tenths to a second behind, so anyone who thinks we can win a championship being that far behind doesn’t understand Formula 1.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 28^th, 2011.