Alonso still feels favourite for title
Fernando Alonso says he still feels as the favourite to win this year's world championship despite his disappointing Canadian Grand Prix
The McLaren driver finished down in seventh position in Montreal as rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton went on to score his maiden win in Formula One.
Hamilton's win left the British driver alone at the top of the championship standings following his sixth consecutive podium in as many races. Alonso is eight points behind, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa already 15 points adrift.
But with 11 races to go, and with McLaren now looking like the team to beat, the world champion still feels he is the favourite to take this year's crown.
"It was a tough race and I prefer to be in my position that in (Robert) Kubica's," the Spaniard was quoted as saying by AS newspaper. "I'm second in the championship and I have a car capable of winning races.
"There are still eleven races left and I feel very much the favourite for the championship.
"He (Hamilton) is currently the best positioned and the rest of us have to fight back, but the title is still a matter of four people."
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