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Alonso responde na conferência de imprensa de 5ª feira:
Q. (Sal Zanca – Associated Press) Fernando, you just talked about surprises. What's been the biggest surprise this year, that you're second now, you're trailing your teammate, the car? What's the biggest surprise?
FA: For me, it has been the tyres, how different they are to drive on. I think the engines are obviously the same - the new V8s we introduced last year – the cars are more or less the same, with the same aerodynamic rules, but the cars are so different to drive this year for everybody, and that's because the tyres change the way the car performs and the way you need to drive the car as well so that has been the biggest surprise for me.
I think for Formula One it's probably my teammate, Hamilton. He has performed really well in the first half of the season and this is maybe not a surprise because we've been testing all winter and in the team, especially when he was quick. You know, he's doing very well.
Q. (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Fernando, how is the situation with the strategy? Who decides the strategy – the team or can a driver just decide which to use during a Grand Prix?
FA: As always, and I think that's all the teams, the team decides everything.
Q. (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo) To Alonso, this week we had the opportunity on the Internet to watch some images about the USA Grand Prix. In the lap following (the one) when you tried to overtake Lewis Hamilton, you brought the car near the pit-wall and it seemed you were complaining about something. Is that correct or not?
FA: No, it's not like that. As I said in Indianapolis, I moved from the slipstream 15 times in the race, but unfortunately I was only on TV on that lap when I was behind Lewis after the overtaking that I tried the lap before. Also, someone in the team said that there was frustration from me and that was very difficult to understand – why they said that. But as I said it was just to come off the slipstream and to cool the car because everything was hot – the brakes were hot, the engine was hot. Everything in my car was hot after driving 73 laps behind Hamilton's car.
Q. (Marco Degl'Innocenti – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Maybe you have not seen the on-board camera shot showing you raising your hand. What did you mean?
FA: I raise my hand every time I catch a car that I lap and every time that I am fighting with someone and if you want to enjoy a race you must watch my on-board camera because I am always quite emotional.
Q. (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Fernando, we read, from Ron Dennis, that you and Lewis are no longer allowed to talk about one another unless you are in the same room. How do you feel about that?
FA: It is not true. It is not true.
Q. (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Why did Ron say it?
FA: I don't know…
Q. (Sal Zanca – Associated Press) Fernando, you just talked about surprises. What's been the biggest surprise this year, that you're second now, you're trailing your teammate, the car? What's the biggest surprise?
FA: For me, it has been the tyres, how different they are to drive on. I think the engines are obviously the same - the new V8s we introduced last year – the cars are more or less the same, with the same aerodynamic rules, but the cars are so different to drive this year for everybody, and that's because the tyres change the way the car performs and the way you need to drive the car as well so that has been the biggest surprise for me.
I think for Formula One it's probably my teammate, Hamilton. He has performed really well in the first half of the season and this is maybe not a surprise because we've been testing all winter and in the team, especially when he was quick. You know, he's doing very well.
Q. (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Fernando, how is the situation with the strategy? Who decides the strategy – the team or can a driver just decide which to use during a Grand Prix?
FA: As always, and I think that's all the teams, the team decides everything.
Q. (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo) To Alonso, this week we had the opportunity on the Internet to watch some images about the USA Grand Prix. In the lap following (the one) when you tried to overtake Lewis Hamilton, you brought the car near the pit-wall and it seemed you were complaining about something. Is that correct or not?
FA: No, it's not like that. As I said in Indianapolis, I moved from the slipstream 15 times in the race, but unfortunately I was only on TV on that lap when I was behind Lewis after the overtaking that I tried the lap before. Also, someone in the team said that there was frustration from me and that was very difficult to understand – why they said that. But as I said it was just to come off the slipstream and to cool the car because everything was hot – the brakes were hot, the engine was hot. Everything in my car was hot after driving 73 laps behind Hamilton's car.
Q. (Marco Degl'Innocenti – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Maybe you have not seen the on-board camera shot showing you raising your hand. What did you mean?
FA: I raise my hand every time I catch a car that I lap and every time that I am fighting with someone and if you want to enjoy a race you must watch my on-board camera because I am always quite emotional.
Q. (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Fernando, we read, from Ron Dennis, that you and Lewis are no longer allowed to talk about one another unless you are in the same room. How do you feel about that?
FA: It is not true. It is not true.
Q. (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Why did Ron say it?
FA: I don't know…
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