Alonso: Renault must seize chances

Although the Spaniard has pushed his team hard all season to make improvements to the R28, he thinks the time has come for the team to start guaranteeing points finishes at each race.

With Renault currently lying seventh overall in the constructors' championship, Alonso has set his sights on them doubling the tally of 15 points they took in the first half of the season over the final nine races of the campaign.

Speaking about his expectations for this weekend's German Grand Prix, Alonso said: "The same as the last two or three Grands Prix. We will try to do a good qualifying and hopefully finish in the top five or six in the race.

"We want to keep scoring points in the race. Now it is no longer important the results of the next race, we need to think overall now for the general points of the championship and try to get points every race to earn a better position in the constructors' championship."

Alonso said that the target meant balancing out the risk factor in races, even if it forced him and Renault to accept positions further down the order that they would ideally like.

"There are times when you need to risk, because there is a clear opportunity to take advantage. And there are some situations where we need to be happy with the points we have, even if it is sixth or seventh or whatever it is, because maybe at the end of the season it will be important.

"Our races now are with Toyota, Red Bull Racing and Williams. We need to forget about the top three teams and we just need to concentrate on our competitors."

Although Alonso is surrounded by fresh speculation in Germany that his Ferrari deal for 2010 is all but done, he is still refusing to talk about his future options.

And he insisted that his priority at the moment was improving his current team's points tally.

"It is clear that we need to improve our results compared to the first half of the season," he said. "In the first nine races we scored 15 points, and as a minimum we need to double that in the second half. So, this is quite an optimistic target and I am fully concentrated on that. For the future, it is too early."