By Tifosa
November 6 2010

Fernando Alonso has downplayed his points' advantage going into Brazil and says the title is now down to destiny.

“Whether we win the championship or lose the championship, it will not be because of the effort we put in the car or our abilities at that point. It will be more a factor of destiny or luck, because there are very little points between us, and close performance between the cars, so we will do all of the five the best we can and we will see what the results are,” he said.

Alonso was relatively calm, despite his engine failure in FP1. The engine gave up 3 laps before its intended run. He remained optimistic about the weekend and said the goal was to remain near the Red Bulls.

“For us it is important to be as close as we can to Red Bull to fight for pole position. We did it in Singapore, which on Friday it seems that they were very competitive and on Saturday we managed to be on pole, so hopefully tomorrow we can do that as well.”

Alonso also repeated his now oft-heard mantra, whilst generally speaking of the championship: achieving podiums in every round.

"Consistency will be our priority with getting on the podium twice as our goal and then we will see after the Abu Dhabi race if it will have been enough to win the championship. Our task is to use all the potential of the car and hopefully also be a bit lucky, as we were in the last race, because luck is an important element in every championship.”

With rain forecast for qualifying in Brazil, it may be hard to predict the outcome and luck may indeed be a major factor in the penultimate round of the championship.