Alonso: New Ferrari my best ever car

Date published : 21 Feb 2010 - 13:38:02

Fernando Alonso has described Ferrari's F10 as the best car he has ever driven, and says his new team hasn't even flexed its muscles yet in testing. The double world champion spent most of this week's Jerez tests on long runs, and did not set the sort of headline grabbing, timesheet topping times that he and team-mate Felipe Massa had in the opening winter test at Valencia. But Alonso ended the week brimming with confidence and warning his rivals that he had a car to fight for the title again. "As of today, this is the best car I've ever had," Alonso was quoted as saying by Reuters. "We will analyse the data, but we are very optimistic. "As of today, if I were in a different team I would be looking at Ferrari because everything is going really well." He shrugged off the 1m18.8s lap set by McLaren's Jenson Button yesterday morning. "I think that someone showed his muscles today, while we didn't," Alonso said. The Spaniard reckons the final test at Catalunya in the coming week will reveal exactly where everyone stands. We'll see in Barcelona - when we'll show up with the latest updates where we are compared to the others," said Alonso. "Over these two days on the dry I could drive many miles and I'm satisfied by the car's performance and reliability. "The F10 is growing very well and there's nothing that should worry us." But he acknowledged that Ferrari still had improvements to make as well. "Naturally we have to improve, because we're not at the max, but we're getting there," he said. "Where we have to improve There's always something to do, but telling you would mean I'd be like a goalie telling you about his weak point so all the strikers would hit there!"