Titles are not important, says Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso has said that the team does not value him for the number of titles he has won throughout his career and added that there is a possibility of a contract extension.

“For me it makes a difference to have the team happy so that at the end of the month they pay me. I think the rest of the things are a little bit more complicated and it’s impossible to make everybody happy. You have to make happy [the people] who give you the food,” he said.

“When I went to Renault I had one year at McLaren and they [Renault] wanted me to come back. And now McLaren is also saying publically that they would be happy for me to come back, so this is a good sign. Then at Ferrari they always treat me very good and there is a possibility to extend the contract further. This makes me happier than anything else, that the teams that have seen me working closely there are always zero doubts about my professionalism and my commitment,” he added.

Alonso will go another year without the title after Sebastian Vettel clinched his fourth consecutive World Championship with a win in the Indian Grand Prix. And he added that team should work harder to dethrone Red Bull.

“We must start working even harder because we have a very strong challenge in front of us. They have been very strong and dominating Formula One for the last four years and we need to do something better than what we did the last four years because it’s clear that it was not enough. We will start immediately and next year we want to win so we have to work,” he said.