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Alonso downplays chances of podium in Spain

Fernando Alonso has downplayed his chances of scoring a podium finish at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix. Despite finishing third at the last round in China, he is expecting a 'tough' home race and doesn't believe he can replicate the result at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 'We cannot start the weekend thinking to be on the podium, thinking to win the race,' he explained in the FIA press conference. 'That will be creating wrong and false targets to everyone that will come here.' 'We finished ninth and tenth in Bahrain, we did podium in China because we had some things putting together on that Sunday but it’s not that we are in a position now to say we will fight for the podium...
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