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Alonso not worried by Ferrari form

Fernando Alonso says he is not yet worried by the pace Ferrari has shown since the summer break ended and Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen dominated the Turkish Grand Prix.

"Well, we more or less knew that, because we are coming from some races where we saw their potential: in Magny-Cours they were very very quick, in Silverstone they were very quick again," Alonso said. 

"The only race where we were back on the pace was maybe Hungary and that was not a surprise because it's a very slow circuit and something like Monaco," he added. "We know that that type of circuit is quite good for us, but coming to a normal circuit like Turkey, they are on top again. We know that we need to improve but next race will be better."

Alonso also wasn't too excited about having cut Hamilton's lead down by only two points. 

"The gap for me is only two points difference, so at the end of the day it's just a second and third place, or a first and second," Alonso said when asked how much Hamilton's puncture had helped. "I'm still losing points from the last two races. If you take Hungary and here, I recovered two points here, I lost five in Hungary, so I'm three worse than what I was in Nürburgring so it's still the same."

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