Alonso: If I can help Massa I will

Monday 13th October 2008

Fernando Alonso has vowed to help Felipe Massa beat his former McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton to this year's World title.

Last season Alonso, then driving for McLaren, was the one involved in a title battle with Hamilton, which led to a great deal of rivalry and animosity within the team and Alonso's subsequent departure after just one year.

This year, though, it's Massa whose locked in the title race with Hamilton, with Alonso vowing to do all he can to help the Ferrari driver beat his former team-mate.

"Yes, no doubt, if I can help, I will help Massa," Alonso told AS newspaper.

As for this year's Championship battle the Renault driver concedes that either driver has reign supreme as both Massa and Hamilton have lost points to each other as well as others during the course of the season.

"They have lost a lot of points," Alonso said of the title rivals. "After 16 races the leader has 84 points. In 2006 I had 82 in nine races.

"In this Championship the drivers who are up there have scored few points. But in the end the one who makes the least errors will win. We'll see."

With a total of 20 points still to play for Hamilton holds a five-point advantage over Massa.

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Your Comments

peterson

"Alonso is and will always be a sad and hateful individual.It's ,now, quite obvious that he hasn't been unfairly treated by the McLaren Mercedes team. He's a damn liar who thinks he's unbeatable whom the only problem in his own team was ... Hamilton. The rookie that beat him with an identical car. Fair-play(word used worlwide) is definitely not part of his language. "

spdguru

"daveyboy, you surely have to be really ignorant and still believe in fairy tales to still be hanging to that story. And by the way, FA was not beat by LH, the tied, in a season, where FA was penalized by the FIA from following team orders, and were more WC than Hamilton in the last race, but McLaren did not pull it off because the were so stubborn they still thought they could bring Lewis to the WC after the mess he did twice in the race. McLaren stopped having class a long time ago... the biggest mistake FA ever did was going to McLaren, but who can blame him, apart from Ferrari, it is still the 2nd biggest name in F1."