We have to be perfect from March to November to win - Alonso

A new season is beginning but there’s no avoiding a return to the one that’s just past – all the more so as it finished with such an intense sporting event as Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

“In the second part of the year we made an extraordinary recovery then, at the last race, we didn’t manage to win the title,” said Alonso. “Certainly after the race you can say that decision was wrong and we should have acted differently. But at the moment that we chose to come into the pits it seemed the right move to us. Now we can stand here and say the degradation of the soft tyres evolved in a surprising manner and that we could have stayed on the track until lap 30 but it’s easy to say that now. The truth is that, as I’ve always said, even if they seem predictable words, you win and you lose together. If it’s true that you learn more from defeats than victories it’s also true that for me 2010 was a success. It’s no longer worth thinking about Abu Dhabi: one minute more given to this means a minute less to dedicate to this year’s work.

“At the end of every season you do an assessment: we know that there are areas where we must improve while seeking to keep up our strengths,” added the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver. “We lost so many points in the first part of the year and we know that we will have to be perfect from March to November to win. We’ve made some changes inside the team that I’m sure will help improve things – as you have to do in every field, not just sport. I know Pat Fry very well, having worked with him at McLaren, and I think that he can be a big help to us.”