Fernando Alonso can make the difference for Ferrari - 2013

Simple logic would propose that this season the 31-year-old has his best possibility however of attractive the 10th driver to win a title for the Italian glamour team, joining a list of greats that comprise Juan Manuel Fangio, Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher.

Being coronet with the most successful team in the history of the sport, one that has struggle in every contest since the first in 1950 would be a occupation high for a driver who is previously Ferrari's clear number one.

To be a Ferrari favourite you do not have to win the contest for the Maranello team - Gilles Villeneuve and Nigel Mansell never did - but Alonso wants additional than just love and admiration. The Spaniard won three races in 2012 and, beside the odds, finished on the platform 13 times in 20 starts. Despite behind out in the end, Alonso affirmed it a 'dream season' but he feels the best is however to come.

"Last year was the best year of my career and I was very pleased with the recital, but I think this year will be better," he said this week. "We have an improved starting point, and I have educated from some mistakes of last year. I have prepared better. I am enhanced than last year."

Give him the tools and Alonso, twice a defender with Renault in 2005 and 2006, can create the difference. He knows it and so do the teams, who have completed everything they can to provide him a winning machine.

Pirelli prepared F1 Race in Austin

Pirelli & Cie SpA and its supplementary, Pirelli Tire North America Inc., have been association simulations on the new F1 track using data obtained from a visit to the track through its building. Pirelli is the sole dealer of tires to F1 racing. Pirelli says track of the Americas in Austin is more multifaceted than the other new F1 track, Hockenheim in Germany, because it has not at all been raced on before. Understanding the scenery of a new outside is always complex, particularly when there is no preceding data.

“There’s no hesitation that preparing for a track that is totally new is more complicated than going to one of the recognized venues," says Paul Hembery, Pirelli’s motorsport manager. "However, we now feel fully prepared for this glorious track, where we will bring the P Zero Silver hard and P Zero White intermediate tires. The expertise and know-how that we have at our removal means that we can estimate some very precise predictions without actually having raced at a track these days, thanks to the preparation work from our engineers.”

 They brought with them complicated laser measuring apparatus in order to evaluate the abrasiveness of the track by investigative closely the spacing and shape of the stones that make up the collective. Several readings were taken from the mechanism in order to ensure a precise demonstration. Using these readings an essential demonstration of the track from the tire’s point of view can be created on computer.

Together with some blacktop samples from the new location, this allowed Pirelli to compute the likely wear rate and the effect of the blacktop and ambient temperatures on the tires at dissimilar points on the track. "Their investigation of our brand new track can help afford race strategy predictions that should assist drivers and teams near achieving achievement at our track," says Steve Sexton, Circuit of the Americas president.