With 43 additional points he achieved in the last two series, Alonso is now ranked fifth with a collection of 141 championship points, or left behind 20 points from champion for Red Bull Racing, Mark Webber (161) on top of the standings. While other candidates champion Lewis Hamilton (157), Sebastian Vettel (151) and Jenson Button (147), sequence positions two, three and four. In seven races remaining before the end of the season, Alonso was still a chance to poke into the top position and took the title in the event a third pole. However, in order to smooth out this great ambition, Spain insisted that his team should be able to perform consistently to the end of the season. "I think we should be satisfied with the results we've achieved so far," said Alonso in Ferrari's official website quoted as saying by Autosport, Wednesday (08/04/2010).
Some races go bad, but some others run well. But overall, I think we we are now in a position to become the leader, because the distance (points) is quite near. Now, we included in the list of five drivers will attempt to become champions this season. There were seven previous series, so anything can still happen. We're all going to start from scratch, so we must always be the best in the rest of the series if we want to be the best in the final competition," he continued. "I also feel we are in a balanced position. No other people who feel like the leader of the championship and no one was occupying the fifth position in the standings. We feel a group and now we are ready to rise up," close the 29 drivers this year.