Alonso: Kubica best of title contenders

With Alonso's own title ambitions all but over for the season, he has no doubts who he believes should win it and who he thinks will triumph in the end.

"I think the best driver for me, of the contenders, is Kubica," explained Alonso at the British Grand Prix.

"I have known him for a long time, from go-karts, and I know that he won every category until Formula One, and he was racing in go-karts with the same opponents as now - with (Nico) Rosberg, with (Lewis) Hamilton, with everybody, and he was the best. And I still think that he is the best now.

"And who is in the best position to get the title? I think it is Raikkonen. If I have to bet for someone, because he has the experience from last year of winning the title, he will be very calm in important moments. And he is in the Ferrari, which I think is the best car at the moment."

Alonso also claims Hamilton has not made more mistakes this year than in 2007 but thinks the errors are maximised due to his larger experience.

"Yeah, because in the first year you just do whatever and everything is okay, because it is your first time and you just try to enjoy it," said the Spaniard, who was Hamilton's teammate during a troubled spell at McLaren last year.

"The second year is more difficult, but I don't think he has done more mistakes. It's just that this is Formula One. It is not an easy sport and sometimes you are a little bit unlucky and you lose a couple of points. With the lights in Canada ... you brake one metre earlier and you don't crash, and you get some points.

"I think in Bahrain, he had a problem at the start with a button on the steering wheel and you lose too many places. If there are none of these problems, you finish ahead of everybody. So it is these small details and some unlucky moments that put you out of the points, and it's difficult to recover after that."