Fernando Alonso is confident Ferrari have the pace needed to fight for the victory at their home race in Italy this weekend.
The Spaniard, who has already stated he needs a good result this weekend to get his title campaign back on track, finished second in Friday's practice, a mere 0.076s behind Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.
Boosting Ferrari's confidence was the fact that Alonso's team-mate Felipe Massa was third quickest, a further 0.13s behind.
"I think we are confident, we are happy with the progress, we are happy with the job - but we respect a lot our rivals, our opponents," Alonso said.
"We know how strong McLaren will be here, probably favourites for tomorrow's pole. We know Red Bull's potential of the car we saw all season, with mainly all the pole positions this season, it will be difficult but we are there.
"We have nothing to worry about at the moment and we will fight."
As for his Friday running at Monza, Alonso declared it to be a "normal Friday" again although Ferrari had "more test items this Friday than some others, especially aero test.
"Monza is a very unique layout for the aero settings with a very unique wings so many things to test when you arrive to Monza.
"In previous years we had some tests two weeks before the race, but now with the test ban you need to use Friday to do all these checks, so we concentrated on that and now we need to look at the data and choose the best possibilities and options for tomorrow, but overall I am happy with the car and I think it was a good Friday for us."
