(CNN) -- Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has warned his team not to get carried away by this season's remarkable turnaround in form.
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso will take a 34-point lead over Red Bull's Mark Webber into Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix despite having almost written off the Scuderia's title chances in preseason.
After early misgivings over the 2012 car, the Spaniard now has three successes from 10 starts -- two of them in the last three grands prix. Webber, with two victories, is the only other driver to have topped the podium more than once.
Alonso's teammate Felipe Massa is back in 14th overall with only 23 points, meaning second-placed Ferrari trail Red Bull by 53 points in the manufacturers' standings after last Sunday's race in Germany.
"I am concerned, more so than the day after Valencia (when Alonso won his second race of 2012)," Montezemolo said on the Ferarri website ahead of the final race before Formula One's month-long break.
"I see very strong opponents: McLaren has made great progress, Red Bull is very strong, Sauber had a race pace that was a match for ours and Lotus is very strong at times.
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"Therefore, we have to be very careful. After we had a difficult start to the season, maybe our rivals did not expect to see Ferrari capable of fighting back this strongly, but now they will redouble their efforts to beat us. Therefore, we must stay very focused and continue our efforts to improve continuously."
Alonso was third at the Hungaroring last year as Jenson Button gave McLaren a fifth victory in seven years at the circuit, which is one of the slowest on the F1 calendar.
"It's going to be tight again. It's a very short circuit, and as we saw this year, in two- or three-tenths there are eight, nine cars," Alonso said on the F1 website.
"In Hungary we need to make a perfect preparation again, a perfect qualifying, because you can be starting in 12th or 13th if you make a little mistake, so we need to approach the race in the same way we did the last couple, try to maximize what we have in Hungary and hopefully bring in some new parts that can help us.
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"At the moment our car seems okay in all areas, there are not weak points, as maybe we had at the beginning of the season when we were suffering a little bit on traction and top speed. Now I think that we are okay on that.
"In Hungary with these slow-speed corners, I don't see any problem with the car. We should be competitive there."
Button returned to form with second place at Hockenheim, and McLaren hope that last weekend's upgrades will make the team even more competitive at a track where Lewis Hamilton won in 2007 and 2009 -- and former drivers Kimi Raikkonen (2005) and Heikki Kovalainen (2008) also triumphed.
"The race pace certainly enabled Jenson to stay in touch with the Red Bull and Ferraris," said managing director Jonathan Neale.
"So on that day, on that circuit, in those conditions we were there or thereabouts. I don't think that we are dominant and we need to continue to work very hard. But we're pleased with it."
Ferrari unveiled the F2012 Friday, their car for the forthcoming Formula One season. The Italian team had planned to reveal the car Thursday, but heavy snowfall around the team's factory forced a postponement.
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Kimi Raikkonen made his Formula One breakthrough with Sauber in 2001, with the highlights of his debut season being fourth place finishes in Austria and Canada.
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Reigning constructors' champions Red Bull have unveiled their new RB8 car for the 2012 Formula One season. The RB8 is the UK-based Austrian team's eighth F1 car.
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Button also won in Budapest for Honda in 2006 for the first victory of his career, after Raikkonen took pole position for McLaren.
"(Last year) I celebrated my 200th grand prix there on the Saturday evening with some of my oldest friends and colleagues in the paddock and I went on to win on Sunday. It was the perfect weekend," the Englishman recalled.
"There's every reason to believe we can get another good result this year. Our pace at Hockenheim gives us cause for encouragement -- it's just that, as always, we'll need to run flawlessly through qualifying and the race if we're to be in the hunt at the end."
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Red Bull's two-time defending world champion Sebastian Vettel was second in Hungary last year, and is aiming to bounce back from last weekend's disappointment at Hockenheim when he was demoted to fifth for an illegal late overtaking move on Button.
However, the UK-based Austrian team will need to make adjustments after ruling body the FIA deemed Red Bull's engine mapping to change the aerodynamics of the cars and therefore be illegal.
"The track is one of the slowest on the calendar, but as a driver you shouldn't underestimate it as there are a lot of opportunities to make mistakes," the German said.
"It can be very hot and that means the track can be very demanding physically. In addition, the surface has many bumps which shake you around a lot."
Rain is forecast for Friday's practice sessions, but the weather should be hot and sunny for qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday.
"A twisty and slippery circuit will often put more heat through the tire than a fast and flowing layout as the tire is moving around more -- particularly when the ambient temperatures are high," said Paul Hembery, managing director of F1's sole supplier Pirelli.
"Having said that, in Hungary last year we saw some wet weather, so it's important not to make any assumptions. Consequently, we are still lacking some information about the performance of our slick tires under race conditions at the Hungaroring."
Meanwhile, Marussia test driver Maria de Villota has left hospital in her native Spain and will return home to recover from the crash in Britain that cost her an eye.
"The patient's general conditions are good, which allowed us to release her," her website reported on Thursday. "In the last six days, she has been treated by specialists of the plastic and neurological surgery services, and the ophthalmology department, who will continue to follow her as she will need to undergo periodical checks and treatments.
"From a neurological point of view, the patient does not present any deficit and does not need any surgery."
De Villota, one of two women contracted to an F1 team this year, collided with a stationary support truck after completing her first lap at her first test outing for the UK-based Russian marque.
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The most striking aspect of the car's design is the new steeped-nose feature. The change has been made to conform to new regulations regarding the height of the front chassis.
The engine Spanish driver Fernando Alonso hopes will power him to a third world championship triumph. Alonso won just one race in 2011 and finished 135 points behind Red Bull's title winner Sebastian Vettel.
Brazil's Felipe Massa has praised the aggression of the new car and described it as part of his dreams. Massa will hope the newly-designed steering wheel can guide him to greater success in 2012, after finishing last season sixth.
Silverstone-based Force India also unveiled their new VJM05 car at the historic British circuit on Friday.
The Indian-owned team will hope to build on last season's respectable sixth-place finish. Force India will be counting on the skills of drivers Paul di Resta of Britain and Germany's Nico Hulkenberg.
The Finn moved to McLaren in 2002, clinching his first grand prix victory in Malaysia during the 2003 season. Raikkonen would eventually finish the year second in the drivers' standings behind the legendary Michael Schumacher.
Raikkonen's most successful season with McLaren came in 2005, where he claimed victory in seven of the year's 19 races. But once again he could only finish second in the world championship, with Spain's Fernando Alonso claiming the first of his back-to-back world championships.
Following a successful five season with McLaren, Raikkonen replaced Schumacher at Ferrari in 2007. The move immediately paid dividends as he claimed victory in his debut race for the team in Melbourne.
After adding to his early win in Australia with victories in France, Britain and Belgium, Raikkonen sealed Ferrari's 200th grand prix triumph in China.
The high point of Raikkonen's career-to-date arrived at the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix, where his victory helped him clinch the world championship despite entering the race third in the drivers' standings.
Raikkonen left F1 in 2009, spending three years racing in the World Rally Championship for Tommi Makinen Racing, Citroen and his own ICE 1 team. He also tried his hand at NASCAR, taking part in the 2011 Top Gear 300 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Raikonnen's return to F1 was confirmed on Wednesday, with the 32-year-old signing a two-year deal with Renault.
The 2012 season will see Red Bull going for a third consecutive constructors' title, having claimed the prize in 2010 and 2011.
Lotus displayed their first car since changing name from Renault on Sunday. The Britain-based team's new E20 will be driven by 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen and Frenchman Romain Grosjean.
Swiss team Sauber revealed the new C31 on Monday, with Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi and Mexico's Sergio Perez putting the car through its paces.
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