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#239490
This guy has been talking a lot lately,and most of it is PR bs!! Once the season starts he will be his old fist waving self again


That fist waving self, that seems to be all you can notice, is actually one hell of a driver, and It's beyond all but a very few to come up with an objective viewpoint that has his fist waving outweighing his driving.


:yes: I consider him the 2nd best driver on the grid,I respect his driving abilities (until he gets on the radio or waves his fist past pitwalls and competitors alike)

the Christiano Ronaldo persona is too much to my liking......I prefer Messi myself..........nevertheless both great players! :wink:
#239536
I'm surprised about Vettel claiming that he will 'pay' to drive for Ferrari.

All along I had the notion that he was putting himself out in the market for 'highest bidder', Redbull and Ferrari. By saying this, isn't he substantially decreasing his own worth (Ferrari might just take him and pay him nothing! :hehe: ) and at the same time totally cheesing of Redbull who everyone knows WANTS his undivided loyalty?

Is it lack of PR or something I'm missing? Is he really that hard up on so called 'history' of the team? :eek:
#239543
For once alonso is probably right about his assessment of the hamilton, button, massa, webber and sebb and it is widely believed if lewis or alonso had been in the red bull, they would have won the wdc


This is pretty obvious for everyone. :wink:
#239544
No..this is going back to the 'who do you think is best' and 'how do you assess' which is impossible.

Who are you, his mom? Sorry mommy, I'll leave little Johnny alone from now. :rolleyes:


He agreed with me and defended my point. Does that mean he is my mother? I wasnt replying because i was asleep and then at school. I get back and to my surprise i find out that FRAFPDD was the entity that gave birth to me. I guess you learn something new everyday eh?

PS. Mom, you have missed quite a few birthdays and not to forget, presents. Please compensate for my loss. Preferably with cash.

Much Love,
your son.
#239545
Well it was an honest question. You don't know who's who on the internet do you? Normally, people argue their own opinions on here, and 3rd parties are not required. Unless 3rd party is somehow related or obligated to one of the parties in the argument. FRAFFY seemed concerned about you which came across to me as a maternal instinct.

I don't see him denying it at any point which is why I simply assumed I was correct. :hehe:
#239546
Alonso Interview


Do you think that there is no unanimity about you in Spain?
Yes, there is unanimity, there are more than 30,000 people here (Jerez), there are queues to get here, if I go out for dinner people love me…

But there are people who speak ill of you, in some circles you don’t have a good image

Those people I am talking about tremble when they see me, for example if they want to have their picture with me taken. And they cry.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: I am scurrrrred now :hehe::hehe:

That is what Cristiano Ronaldo said the other day.
Because that is how it works. And I am going to give you an example. I have a friend who one day, when we were at Montmelo, when I arrived to the motorhome he told me that outside there were a few people he knew from those internet forums.:wavey: Some of them usually criticised me :wavey: and my friend was of the opinion that, if they asked me for an autograph, I should pay them no attention. I went out and one of them was shaking (his camera) when he wanted to have a pic taken with me. So, one thing is internet and how brave you are there, and another thing is the admiration I receive from people around the world. And I think that there is much more unanimity that what it is said or written, because it sells more (papers?) to say that there are anti-Alonsoists than to say that 30,000 people came to see me, because that is the usual thing and nobody writes about it.

Sometimes I wonder why a person like you, a sports legend, a pioneer in F1 in Spain and with enough money to sustain a few generations, still risks his life on track, What are you looking for?
I would miss it, we have grown up with that adrenaline, with the need to compete, to risk our lives and when you are idle for two months you can’t wait to be back in the car. Hence I will keep on doing it for as long as I see that your (my) competitiveness or my results are acceptable, the day I realise that you (I) am not up to it I will leave it, but as long as I manage…I would miss it too much.

I don’t want you to retire too soon, God forbids, but a few days ago they told me that you would leave when you had kids, is that true? Do you think that you lose a second on track for each child you have?
No, I don’t think so. And I have not thought about retiring if I ever have kids either, that would not be a reason to retire for me.

How do you see, from the vantage point of view of a sports star, the economic crisis?
With concern. I have many friends who have lost their jobs, who are going through some difficulty, and concerned for your country, the news you hear, you read, about the politicians, about Spain...You always want the best for your people, for your countrymen, and things going poorly is sad even if it does not impact you directly.

Should sports stars be a reference in public life?
I don’t think we could do much, but whatever we could do we would be happy to do, I suppose that sports is a way (for people) to escape crisis or worries. On any given Sunday you watch a football match or an F1 race and your mind clears up, you can enjoy yourself a bit.

So do you work on making people happier?
I think so, for example the football World Cup. When Spain won it we had those 15 or 20 days of total bliss because we had won, and for a moment everything else was forgotten.

Beyond your contribution to the common happiness, tell me, what does Spain need to get out of a crisis like this one?
Patience, this is not just a Spanish crisis, this is a worldwide crisis (originated) due to different circumstances and I don’t think that getting nervous or trying to sort everything out in a few months is the solution, we need to be patient, even if it isn’t easy.

Last year you said that you needed your lifelong friends close to keep your sanity, how can you endure all this?
You try to stay a little above it all, you touch it very lightly, what goes on during these days, you live immersed in the car, in (your work with) the engineers, and then when you arrive home you call your school friends or play a tennis match with them, or go out for dinner and talk of everyday things, of Real Madrid, of things that have nothing to do with F1 and go back down to real life, to the life you want.

A lot is said about your famous quote, about F1 not being a sport. What is it then?
F1 is too much of a business to be a sport, and too much of a sport to be a business, it is somewhere in between both, it is a show but also a business for many people. It isn’t just a sports speciality pure and simple, there are many interests, many things in play (too much at stake) and hence also the greatness of this sport, otherwise it would be just like GP2 or a promotion formula, F1 is big/great because of everything that revolves around it.

Now that you know all that, what is left of that young guy who made his debut in F1 with a serious face before getting into the worst car of the grid?
I still have a serious face now..(laughs). At the moment that picture is taken you are about to get into the car, it is like seeing the face of a surgeon just before he is about to start a surgery, nobody is telling jokes. What is still left is a bit of the basis, the hope, the eagerness to live motorsports from within and the admiration for the cars, the gasoline, the engines… and the essence of that boy is still there too.

When you see your friend Kubica in a hospital, do you fear for your life?
First and foremost, I want to say that Robert is a great driver, the best of the current grid and that one day, sooner or later, he will be world champion. And about the question, no, you don’t thing, you don’t think about anything bad, but I am very much aware of the risk inherent to this sport. That’s another thing that people forget out there, usually the guy who finishes 12th receives any type of adjectives from the internet users or whoever, and the one who finished 12th risked his life just like the guy who won and did his best. But you never thing about anything bad, even if you see a colleague in that situation.

Say something to those people who travel from Asturias to Jerez to see you.
The championship looks interesting, with options to be in front, but we have to wait, nobody can know what this championship will bring along because of the unknowns/unanswered questions left. We still have some tests that will require hard work to come, the first races when we will see how things stand, and then we have a long year ahead of us for evolving the car, avoiding mistakes and be fighting. We will never stop fighting.
#239547
Well it was an honest question. You don't know who's who on the internet do you? Normally, people argue their own opinions on here, and 3rd parties are not required. Unless 3rd party is somehow related or obligated to one of the parties in the argument. FRAFFY seemed concerned about you which came across to me as a maternal instinct.

I don't see him denying it at any point which is why I simply assumed I was correct. :hehe:


3rd parties? Surely if two people are argueing the same point they count as the same party? The American parliament doesn't have 300 parties, it has 3, each party (or in this case, opinion) can have more than one supporter.
#239548
Well this isn't the parliament its an F1 forum. :rolleyes:

Can you chill out? You just got back from school, take a rest. I'm bored...let's move on.
#239551
The point sticks nowhere.

Oh really? I just saw your post in another thread where you were repeatedly 'banging you head against a wall' just now. Is that your definition of 'always chilled out'? :hehe:
#239556
For once alonso is probably right about his assessment of the hamilton, button, massa, webber and sebb and it is widely believed if lewis or alonso had been in the red bull, they would have won the wdc


This is pretty obvious for everyone. :wink:


:hehe: i think with vettel going to ferrari, red bull know deep down that the timebomb is well and truly ticking and its only getting closer :twisted:
#239558
Well it is quite dissapointing when their lovable 'pet' keeps talking about how he dreams to leave them. :hehe:
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