Despite the fact that two out of eight engines – the amount of units stipulated by the FIA to be used by each driver for an entire F1 campaign – have already gone down the drain, the 2-time world champion insisted that his worries on the powerplant problem is “zero” and that his team's engine programme for 2010 is going ahead as planned.
“My worry is zero. With the race engines, with the ones we use for Saturday and Sunday, we are still working as planned and the Friday engines will have to do a few more kilometers from here to the end of the year, but always within the limits we reached during winter testing,” said Alonso after P2 on Friday, according to Autosport.
“If we break more engines then we'll start thinking, but right now there are no worries, and this engine was going to reach its end sooner or later. That's why we removed it in Bahrain. We knew it was dying,” added the Spaniard, while admitting that losing the engine from Malaysia was the only unexpected event that disturbed his engine program for the 2010 campaign.
As far as Ferrari's newly-developed F-duct system is concerned, Alonso revealed his car debuted a new engine cover and a few rear wing updates, but the system was not complete and needs more data-analysis in order to be fully implemented on the car.
“The F-system was not active. We tested the engine cover to compare it with the standard one. I didn't notice anything,” said Alonso.
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