Formula one: ‘Alonso title not certain’

Martin Brundle believes it is far from certain that Fernando Alonso will end the season as world champion despite the Spaniard’s current comfortable points lead, according to Sky Sports. The battle for the drivers’ championship will recommence at Spa this weekend with Alonso more than the points equivalent of a race victory ahead of his main rivals. However, one comfort for the other drivers is that Ferrari only have the fourth-fastest car behind McLaren, Lotus and Red Bull. “I think Alonso’s obviously got a big head start points-wise but I don’t think it’s a dead cert by any means,” said Brundle. “He’s going to have to rely on Red Bull and McLaren and Lotus taking points off each other and he needs [Felipe] Massa to get in and help him by taking points off his main rivals.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28^th, 2012.