Alonso still negative about F1 but pledges to focus on title

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2006

SHANGHAI (AFP) — Defending world champion Fernando Alonso has reaffirmed his negative views about Formula One, but pledged to forget them this weekend and focus on his title battle with Michael Schumacher. The 25-year-old Renault driver leads the retirement-bound seven-times champion Schumacher by two points in this year's championship and knows nothing less than his very best will enable him to resist the rampant Ferrari man.

"I feel the same -- and when I say something it is because I think that," Alonso said Thursday, referring to his outburst at the Italian Grand Prix where he and his Renault team felt they were the victims of a conspiracy. They accused the sport's ruling body, the International Motorsport Federation (FIA), of cheating. "It is not because I am angry, but...