Fernando Alonso has admitted to Sky Sports F1 that Ferrari are "behind the top teams" and revealed that, unlike their direct competitors, they will not be trialling their package for the season-opening Australian GP this weekend at Barcelona. Although a pecking order has been all-but impossible to determine over the last month of winter testing, Alonso's remarks represent the first definitive acknowledgement that Ferrari are not currently on a par with the leading teams - widely believed to be Red Bull and, after a positive step forward at the start of 2013, Lotus. "I think we are a little bit behind the top teams, which is where we expected to be. In Brazil we were seven or...
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