I used to like alonso very much. Was suppporting him last year at silverstone and turkey but have lost all respect for him this as his driving is overshadowed by his histrionics and childish behaviour.
They are both childish. Imagine you are on your flying lap, warming up the tires and burning fuel. Pole is very important here because there's less then 10% chance of passing. Your teammate is in front of you, your boss comes on the radio to inform you that he's gonna move out of the way for your hot lap...tick, tick tick tick.. time is running out, fuel is getting low, tires are getting cold..tick tick tick, your race engineer comes on the radio, your teammate is not moving after being told 5 (FIVE, 5, FIVE) times, come in the pit mate. There you are in the pit, pissed and what do you see, he's parked behind you. What do you do??
Here's a transcript after the race. What's interesting is that Lewis said he taught Ron was trying to teach him a lesson by having Alonso park the car.
Q: (Dan Knutson – National Speed Sport News) Lewis, after qualifying yesterday you sat here and said you needed to go to the team for an explanation of what happened. What did the team explain to you of how that all unfolded?
LH: Yesterday I came back, everything was quiet, we didn’t really speak too much. I went back to my engineers, we did the same job as always, a debrief. Then we had a sit-down with Martin Whitmarsh, Fernando and his mechanic and me and my mechanic and we went through what the programme was and they asked me why I didn’t do the part that they want me to. And so I explained to them. I said: “I made a mistake, I apologise, it won’t happen again. But it has happened, let’s forget about it and move on. We are both on the front row so we can still smile.â€
