Fernando Alonso reckons his Ferrari team can start having fun again after proving in the Turkish Grand Prix that their upgraded car is quick enough to give Red Bull a few frights. Prior to Istanbul, Ferrari had not even finished on the podium in 2011, but Alonso got as high as second in Turkey after hunting down and passing Mark Webber's Red Bull.
He ultimately lost out to the Australian again in the final stint, when the Red Bull had fresher tyres, but was still able to hang on to a breakthrough third.
"I think we had a good weekend overall," said Alonso. "The car performed a bit better than what we did in the first three races of the championship, so finally we're enjoying racing again and we enjoyed a race fighting for the podium positions, and changing second and third position through the race. "Finally we can enjoy racing again."
He said the only difference between his and Webber's pace during their various dices came from who had the best tyres at any time.
"I maybe had a little bit of advantage in terms of tyre degradation compared to Mark at that [middle] part of the race, and we used the DRS and I was able to overtake him," Alonso recalled.
"Then in the last part of the race it was more or less the opposite. "We had a very little disadvantage with tyre age and we lost the position again."
But even though he came off second best on this occasion, Alonso was delighted that he had been able to take the fight to the dominant Red Bull team.
"Fighting with Red Bull these days is quite difficult, and we were close," he said. "Hopefully next time we can try again."
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