Alonso has declared that he does not see Renault winning this season so his chances to remain in contention for the title are quite slim.

He is, nevertheless, enjoying the fight with the big guys:

"For me it is always difficult to fight with them, but at the moment I have scored many points, 39 points, that for me was a big surprise this season and I am still dreaming each weekend because even when the things look quite bad or we don't have a good balance in the car or something like that, we also get results from that weekend so I think we are doing a good job and we will try to keep this level until the end of the season." He said.

Magny-Cours is next, and having scored in all races bar Austria, because of an engine failure, Alonso is expecting to do well at the French track:

"I think we always have the same pressure, have to do the maximum that we can. We know that sometimes the results are coming and sometimes that they are not. We will put all the effort in here at Magny-Cours because it is an important race for the team."

Journalists were eager to ask ALonso about his incident with Coulthard at the European GP. They all got what they wanted to hear:

"I was happy to prove that I didn't brake early and you know the marshals and race director checked the data in Nurburgring, the laps before, the laps after the incident and you know everything was clear. I braked at the same point and I was happy to prove that…a lot of people talk about if I braked early, if was not sporting and I was very happy to prove I was in a normal situation." He added. "I took the inside line to protect my position and after the corner I looked in the mirror and David was not there. I feel a little bit bad because it was a good fight for the position and I didn't know what happened really. It was a normal part of the race weekend."

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