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Fernando Alonso: “No suprises at Monaco Grand Prix” 

Following Stefano Domenicali’s statements on Sunday that at the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix Renault could join Ferrari, McLaren and BMW Sauber for the win, double World Champion Fernando Alonso has stated that things will unlikely change in the Monte Carlo street race with the French outfit still battling behind the top teams.

“We’ll see, what will happen in Monaco,” said Alonso. “That’s what we always think when going to Monaco or at least we all think Monaco is so different that things will change, but in the end it’s always a McLaren or a Ferrari winning or Renault like in 2006. The cars that have been winning all season arrive at Monaco and win too so in the end we see less surprises than we initially expect.”

Referring to Sunday’s sixth place result, the Spaniard said: “Impossible to do better. It sounds a bit repetitive, but the three teams in front are too far from the rest and we are fighting for seventh place, which is what we have been saying for a while. In Istanbul we achieved that, there were no surprises. Thanks to Kovalainen’s problem we finished sixth, otherwise we would have been seventh.”