Confessions !

Confirming all suspicions that Alonso gave up the fight as soon as Michael went into the lead ( see here for an earlier post on this matter ), Alonso has admitted that he turned down the revs and settled for second.

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Alonso, said: ''Ferrari were a bit faster than us today, and while our tyre performance was okay, they certainly had more speed.''

Renault boss Flavio Briatore, too, confessed that the Ferrari-Bridgestone-Schumacher package was 'too strong' in the Eifel region.