keba 0 Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 There you have it... a newby mistake by a driver who is starting to believe the hype? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 It wasn't a mistake. He didn't allow Alonso past because Raikkonen was behind him, and he didn't want to let him past too. What he didn't do was hold Alonso up, so no harm there. Alonso held Hamilton up. There's a difference. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Apparently Alonso will be byebyes at the end of the season. So my sources say Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Back to Renault perhaps. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Alonso. The style king. He deserves to loose the championship. Those sunglasses are a shocker. Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Schumacher won a fair few times and do you remember some of his bizarre fashion crimes. They were funny actually. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Schuey is german though, hardly the centre of world fashion Link to post Share on other sites
giggsy 0 Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Independent says Ron Dennis and the McLaren team have come under further pressure with reports in the Spanish media that world champion Fernando Alonso is so fed up with life in the team that he is considering quitting before the seasons end "We are now able to say that Alonso doesn't want to spend a minute longer at McLaren," claimed the Spanish sports daily AS. "Not only does he want to race for someone else in 2008, the situation is so bad that he is considering ending the current championship with another team. Link to post Share on other sites
lin 0 Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 What happened to the spy accusations in the end? Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 I want to see him get beat this year and see how he handles it, if we don't already know. Still close though so we will have to see. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hamilton disobeyed a team order. He needs to remember he's a rookie, and do what he's told by the people who are paying him (a lot) of money. It doesn't excuse Alonso for being a whining prat, but he should expect preferential treatment. I would, in his position. Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 He was told not to expect that, so he shouldn't have been expecting it. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 He was told he would be on equal terms with Hamilton? I didn't know that. One less excuse for being a whining prat. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Alonso's not covering himself in glory. I was a fan. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Ron Dennis must have seen something special in Hamilton, to tell the current world champion not to expect any favours. I'm surprised Alonso took him up on it... and now he's been invited to leave. Must make him feel unloved. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 But isn't it just McLaren general policy?? Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Seems to have been their history, if not an explicit policy. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 What you need are two drivers mature enough to compete with one another, without jeopardising the team. Link to post Share on other sites
taguchi 0 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 I thought it was always the well-known policy of McLaren. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 don't think so. What about when Coultard was about to win in Australia and he was told to pull over and let Mika through? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 That was a particular situation. Hakkinen was leading the race when someone hacked into the McLaren radio and ordered him to pit. Thus he surrendered the lead to Coulthard. Dennis was correcting an injustice. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 I've been enjoying reading all the newspapers on about this lot over the last week or so. As you might expect, Hamilton seems to be the one getting the least stick but they all note that a new side has been revealed. The last 6 races should be fun to follow. I was always under the impression that Ron Dennis made it quite clear it was "fair" to both drivers - and that's in public to us. Alonso must just be daft. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 To have your own drivers race against each other is just silly. They could get out of hand and take each other out, leaving it all wide open to the other constructors. To have champions too arrogant to take orders is bad enough, but to have a rookie who think he knows better than the team? Good luck to you Maclaren, looks like you need to do more than just spying. What a sleazy team. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Do other teams instruct their drivers not to race each other? Link to post Share on other sites
NutteyCubey 0 Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Ones that lose? Link to post Share on other sites
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