Renault's Fernando Alonso heads into Sunday's Italian Grand Prix with a double dose of motivation to win.

The Spaniard wants to extend his points lead over Michael Schumacher, but he is also keen to inflict the pain of a home defeat on the German's Ferrari team.

"This year I have won in Silverstone, in Monaco, in Spain - and for sure I want to win Monza, too," he said.

"It is one of the legendary tracks so it would be special, and even more so to beat Ferrari in their home race."

Alonso extended his championship lead to 12 points by finishing second ahead of Schumacher at the last race in Turkey.

But he admits that victory at Monza will be tough - Ferrari have been the pace-setters in F1 for the last three months.

"There is only one target for the Renault team at the moment - to finish in front of Ferrari," he said.

"They have been quite dominant in the last races, so beating them means winning races. That is our focus."

Alonso has taken encouragement from his result in Turkey, which was won by Schumacher's team-mate Felipe Massa.

He finished second even though the team were prevented from racing their "mass dampers", a device that aids tyre grip but which has been declared illegal by the sport's bosses.

"I think the team did a fantastic job in Turkey," Alonso said.

"We have had a strange summer, with the mass damper decision and some poor results, so it was good to prove to everybody that the car is competitive regardless.

"We really fought hard in that race, and it shows we are ready to fight with Ferrari all the way to the end of the championship."

Renault feel hard done by, especially because governing body the FIA had declared the mass damper legal when the team first decided to run it at the end of last season.

But technical director Bob Bell said the ban had made the team more determined to win the title than ever.

"Clearly, the team suffered from the fact that the loss of the mass damper coincided with the summer test ban," Bell said.

"We have now had the chance to reoptimise the R26, and the events of the summer have made us hungrier to prove we can do the job.

"Our points-scoring momentum might have dipped, but importantly there is no loss of momentum in the team's effort to put out a winning car at each race.

"We will be working as hard as humanly possible to come out on top of what will be a very close battle, as the advantage swings back and forth between us and Ferrari."

Alonso wants 'special' Monza win
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this is the one that I hate him! talking too much...
on my own opinion, he just can win 2005 title because of the rule of cannot change tyre on race    & michelin done good job...

you not going to take 2006 WC ALONSO... the 2006 WC is for Schumi

I'd rather support Fisi than Alonso... 

New Renault test driver Nelson Piquet Jr will make his debut for the Renault F1 team at Silverstone next week.

Piquet, runner-up to Lewis Hamilton in the GP2 series, will tests at the Northamptonshire circuit with Renault's 2007 race driver Heikki Kovalainen.

Piquet, whose father Nelson won three F1 championips, said: "I am really looking forward to my first test.

"It will be a great chance to learn as much as I can and get to know everybody at the team."

The 21-year-old, who has also driven in the A1 GP series, added: "I like Silverstone very much and I have driven there a lot.

"So it's good that I don't have to worry about learning the track, I can just focus on driving a front-running car like the R26 for the first time.

"I am happy that I am getting three full days of testing because it will be more car time than any other F1 car I've driven."

Renault will also use former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta in their testing programme.

Formula One bosses have moved to stop a repeat of last weekend's qualifying controversy that resulted in Fernando Alonso being punished for blocking.

Renault were angered after Ferrari's complaint against Alonso was upheld by Italian Grand Prix race stewards.

The decision meant Alonso was dropped from fifth to 10th for Sunday's grid.

But a letter by governing body the FIA said complaints about blocking in qualifying would "no longer be referred to the stewards of the meeting".

Although world champion Alonso was penalised for impeding Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, in-car video footage suggested the two were never closer than 100m.

But race stewards decided, after the matter was brought to their attention, that Massa had been impeded - albeit unintentionally.

The decision provoked widespread criticism inside the F1 paddock, with Renault head Flavio Briatore and Alonso suggesting afterwards that the championship was being manipulated in Ferrari's favour.

Alonso went into the Italian race with a 12-point lead over Schumacher, but his demotion limited his chances of preventing his rival closing the gap.

In the end, Alonso retired with engine failure having climbed up to third and Schumacher now trails him by only two points with three races remaining.

FIA race director Charlie Whiting wrote to the managers of all 11 teams this week explaining procedural changes as a result of the furore.

"Only in cases where it appears to race control that there has been a clear and deliberate attempt to impede another driver will the stewards be asked to intervene," Whiting wrote.

"We now feel it is pointless for the stewards to engage in long and painstaking enquiries if competitors ignore clear scientific evidence and instead abuse the regulator," he added, clearly referring to Renault's reaction.

this tred should be burn in hell renault is now a bunch of weak middle pack team like honda

OMG, there is a Renault thread. Been here since 2006 and never seen it.

Cute 
Compared to his weird gestures years ago 

yeah la.. got some style like pikachu.. 

The 27-year-old later told Italy's Sky: "I didn't know why he (Hamilton) had been penalised. After last year, I want Ferrari to win. I will help Massa if I can."

"They have thrown away many points," Spain's Diario AS newspaper quotes him as saying.

"After 16 races the leader has 84 points, but I had that many after nine races in 2006," Alonso recalls.

Wo0t! 

Alonso vows to help Massa win title
Link ~ http://en.f1-live.com
Hamilton still haven't learn a thing from last year.