WORLDSPORTS
DECEMBER 2013
ALONSO
NEEDS
‘LUCK’
F
errari’s Fernando Alonso has admitted he
needs to be “very, very lucky” to prevent Red
Bull’s Sebastian Vettel winning the title this
year.
Alonso finished second in the Singapore Grand
Prix to the Red Bull driver and is 60 points behind
with 150 available in the remaining six races.
Alonso said: “We have to be realistic. We have
to be honest with ourselves and say we need a lot
of luck. It is a tough opponent, but if we get that
luck we will get there.”
The 32-year-old Spaniard admitted he needed
Vettel to hit problems in more than one of the
remaining races.
The next is in Korea on 6 October, followed by
Japan, India, Abu Dhabi, the USA and Brazil.
Alonso vows to keep fighting for title
“We don’t just need luck in Korea,” Alonso
said. “We need it in Korea, Japan, India, Abu
Dhabi.
LEGEND LIVES ON
Alonso still on track for title
“We will try to improve the car every race but it is not enough. Our
opponents are doing a better job. In sport the best one wins and we are
not the best ones at the moment, so we will keep working.”
Alonso pointed to the retirement of Vettel’s team-mate Mark Webber on the final lap in Singapore as a reason for hope.
“We have a points deficit that is a big distance and a performance
Senna’s death still
Senna
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t h e g a m e sports magazine
DESIGN legend Adrian Newey says he is still troubled by Ayrton Senna’s death in one
of his cars 19 years ago.
Red Bull’s Newey was chief designer at Williams when the three-time world champion was killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
“What happened that day, what caused the accident, still haunts me to this day,” he
said.
Newey said “no-one will know” whether the accident was caused by driver error or
steering-column failure.
The Brazilian suffered fatal head injuries in a crash at the 190mph Tamburello
corner of the Imola circuit on 1 May 1994.
Newey and Patrick Head, Williams technical director at the time, were prosecuted
in Italy for manslaughter but eventually acquitted.
The prosecution argued a poorly manufactured modification to the steering column had caused it to fracture and break at the crucial moment.
Williams said all the data pointed to a driver error caused by Senna pushing too
hard over bad bumps in a corner made more challenging than normal by the handling