prodigy said:
Quite rightly said, Alonso too had the misfortune of a blown engine in Monza. Nobody gave two hoods about him but when Michael blows his engine, everyone says its a sad day for him and so on. Michael on the other hand was very philosophical, you win as a team, you lose as a team and that Formula 1. Hats off to the 7 time World Champion. He shows what a team leader he is by saying that. Maybe other drivers would have started blaming everyone else.
mind i say Alonso was also being a bit nasty in Monza... so maybe that may have turn some people off...hihihih....
Michael did not show much emotions on the way walking back to pits isn't he.. he took the disapointment quite well... if Alonso were to have blown his again.. i bet he will be flinging helmets, steering and shoving the marshals... and not to mention Michael still had to comfort his engineers... Alonso i guess would be practically shouting at his engineers... just what i would imagine... not neccesary to happen...
prodigy said:
Why do you think that was an easy win? You mean Alonso just didn't work hard enough to deserve the win. As much as you all hate Alonso to win, fact is he pushed the car really hard and very obviously during the qualifying, Ferrari/Bridgestones had a car almost 1 sec quicker than everyone else. During raceday, Alonso was able to maintain a reasonable gap between himself and Michael. So that also shows how hard Alonso was pushing. Had Alonso just drove his car to second place, Michael would have had it much easier and he probably tuned his revs down too.
I don't want to comment too much about something that COULD HAVE happened. If is still a if. Bottom point is, Alonso deserves it all for the win.
If you all remember Mika Hakkinen dropped out on the last lap of the Spanish GP few years back. Nobody said Michael had an easy win. It was plain misfortune for Mika and Michael was there to grab the opportunity.
You wanna know whats an easy win?? Last years US GP at Indianapolis was an easy win.
Alonso did push hard too...if not as hard as Michael did...frankly i think Michael had to broke a sweat or 2 trying to maintain that gap...Alonso in Monza was somewhat far behind Michael and could not really close the gap... he was not losing as much compared to Michael is in Suzuka...even if Alonso were to finish that race... he would still have a couple of points taken away from him...Michael lost 10 points (which meant everything) in this race which meant it more or less contra to Alonsos Monza misfortune...
Furthermore...Michael had several more misfortunes this year compared to Alonso... he had to climb back a heap of points just to be back in contention with Alonso and shit like this happens at the 2nd last race...
and the comentators were talking about the Renault "never give up" spirit... talk about Michael and Ferrari on not giving up... they practically had been given a huge title hope a month back and suddenly again to see it dissapear...
Personally Michael did help build up Ferrari (from team spirit to team work and even the car itself) and brought them out from a 21year slump...so he does deserve the sympathy... Alonso just got discovered and jumped right in to a car that was no worse than his previous team Minardi...so as for the contribution over the years... i'd say michael deserves more than Alonso...
Daniel Lee said:
Alonso trying to make this a popular move, just like Michael (leap on the podium when he won a race). But this is like what those natives do when they worship their god. It's like a joke to me.
Alonso jumped like a dork on the podium... like trying to avoid a puddle of mud or something like that.. Michael leaped more gracefully compared to him...
call me an "Anti-Alonso"... but i would cough blood watching him jumped on the podium like a monkey... and yesterday pushed my antiness up another notch...