Fernando Alonso still maintains that he can win the title after Red Bull dominate qualifying again

A defiant Fernando Alonso has insisted he can beat Sebastian Vettel in the Indian Grand Prix and that the World Championship remains his for the taking.

Alonso denied that upgrades Ferrari are running this weekend are not working as the team would wish because of the correlation issues they have experienced - for some time now - between wind tunnel and the track. "I don't think so. I think we are improving our car and I think we are making our car faster. Especially in this race - not so much in the last few grands prix, but I think this happened to every team," he said. "But you need to put something big in your car when you are not the fastest - to become faster. You need a big upgrade; what we have in India is a small upgrade. "We are waiting for some new part coming in the next races and hopefully we can be close to Red Bull, that at the moment is very dominant." Of the correlation difficulties, he added: "I think it's a general situation all year, not just at the last four races. The wind tunnel was not giving us the right information and we lost the pace. "We were out of the pace in February, out of the pace in July, out of the pace in September. We keep more or less consistent." Meanwhile, Alonso said he could not better his fastest time, set on scrubbed soft tyres early in the final session, owing to the difficulty - seemingly shared by many drivers - in getting fresh rubber up to temperature. "We saw all weekend that the new tyres are a bit little difficult - to get the maximum grip out of them in the beginning of the runs. We also saw McLaren in Q2 doing the fastest lap on lap five or something like that," he added. "We couldn't improve at the second attempt in Q3 but it was okay with the first one to be P5, which is I think a good position to start the race and to attack."