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[What's Burning?]

I'm loving the smack talk.

ESPNF1 Fernando Alonso has warned Sebastian Vettel that he has to deliver when he doesn't have the best car in order to prove his ability.

Having won his fourth consecutive drivers' championship, Vettel has received praise for his success from the likes of Felipe Massa and Mario Andretti. However, Alonso believes the nature in which Vettel has won his world titles so far sets him up for a big fall if he isn't able to produce when it is clear he doesn't have the fastest car.

"Time will tell us, but I think when he will have a car like the others, if he wins he will have a great recognition and he will be one of the legends of Formula One," Alonso told the BBC.

"When one day he has the car like the others and he is fourth, fifth or seventh then these four titles will be bad news for him because people will take these four days even in a worse manner than what they are doing now. So there are interesting times for Sebastian coming."

[spankyham]

Personally I don't like this sort of public trash talking your opponent. Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe there is a place to sledge your opponent, but I always preferred to do it on a "personal" basis

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[Hammer278]

I'm loving the smack talk.

ESPNF1 Fernando Alonso has warned Sebastian Vettel that he has to deliver when he doesn't have the best car in order to prove his ability.

Having won his fourth consecutive drivers' championship, Vettel has received praise for his success from the likes of Felipe Massa and Mario Andretti. However, Alonso believes the nature in which Vettel has won his world titles so far sets him up for a big fall if he isn't able to produce when it is clear he doesn't have the fastest car.

"Time will tell us, but I think when he will have a car like the others, if he wins he will have a great recognition and he will be one of the legends of Formula One," Alonso told the BBC.

"When one day he has the car like the others and he is fourth, fifth or seventh then these four titles will be bad news for him because people will take these four days even in a worse manner than what they are doing now. So there are interesting times for Sebastian coming."

Goes well with this:

Sebastian Vettel has told Autosport he hopes that Formula One's regulation changes in 2014 do not spread the field out compared to recent years.

The revised engine regulations are predicted to widen the gaps between the teams next year and Vettel said that it would be a shame if that made the season less competitive.

"It's difficult to predict how it impacts on the racing," Vettel said. "I just hope it doesn't split the cars too much, because what we had the last couple of years was a very tight battle between a lot of teams."

He said that despite his and Red Bull's dominance the sport was closer in recent years. "I think generally we had good races. Obviously the racing got criticised [in 2013] for some reasons that we can explain.

"But I don't think that is entirely fair because if you look back, it has always been like it has been the last five or six years. We've had very close championships, then we had championships which were not that close.

"But that is the way F1 has been in the past and it will probably continue like that in the future."

[sagi58]

Personally I don't like this sort of public trash talking your opponent. Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe there is a place to sledge your opponent, but I always preferred to do it on a "personal" basis

Funny, I didn't see that as "trash talk" so much as it was a dose of reality.
Alonso didn't say anything a lot of F1 fans haven't already said, eh?

[geetface9]

ugh vettel is so ugly

[spankyham]

Personally I don't like this sort of public trash talking your opponent. Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe there is a place to sledge your opponent, but I always preferred to do it on a "personal" basis

Funny, I didn't see that as "trash talk" so much as it was a dose of reality.
Alonso didn't say anything a lot of F1 fans haven't already said, eh?

Perhaps its reality-based trash-talk
Personally I think it would have been so much more effective if he'd said the same thing to Seb as they came out of the final driver meeting just before the Oz GP

[racechick]

Personally I don't like this sort of public trash talking your opponent. Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe there is a place to sledge your opponent, but I always preferred to do it on a "personal" basis

Funny, I didn't see that as "trash talk" so much as it was a dose of reality.
Alonso didn't say anything a lot of F1 fans haven't already said, eh?

Perhaps its reality-based trash-talk
Personally I think it would have been so much more effective if he'd said the same thing to Seb as they came out of the final driver meeting just before the Oz GP

Well he hasn't just said it, I heard that quote a while ago.

[CookinFlat6]

I was as fast as Alonso

http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/9094367/Massa-I-was-as-fast-as-Alonso

[Hammer278]

The quali record is 11-8....which isn't that bad. I think Massa isn't far of the mark, since he's talking about qualifying and not races. Though I don't see how this big speech helps him since you get no points in qualifying.

[sagi58]

Sounds like he's rationalizing/justifying his decision to keep racing.
He doesn't need to do that. As long as he has a team willing to keep
him racing, he has the opportunity to prove he deserves to!

[Jabberwocky]

Well done Massa for being as fast as someone who is not the best qualifier!

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[sagi58]

Baby steps and little victories, eh? Can't beat 'em!!

[sagi58]

 wrote:">Alonso’s podium shot of crowd at Monza to come under the hammer at Coys



A little moment of F1 history – the photo Fernando Alonso took of the huge crowd of tifosi
beneath the podium at last year’s Italian Grand Prix – is coming up for sale next month.

It was a moment celebrated by many fans of the sport.

And a one-off signed print of that photo is going under the hammer at a Coys auction in
London on Friday February 7th in aid of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital...

[CookinFlat6]

Watch out Nando, Philip is no longer mr lapdag since he left, and he is now out to get you

Massa, who parted ways with Ferrari at the end of last year, said Alonso “knew everything” about the plan when asked about it in a recent interview for Autosport. “But he would never tell me,” Massa added.

Massa, who has previously likened the race to a fixed football match, failed to score after a pit lane mishap during the Safety Car period triggered by Piquet Jnr’s crash. The points he lost to championship rival Lewis Hamilton that day ultimately cost him the 2008 title.

Massa added the FIA should have “cancelled” the result of the after once the truth came to light in September 2009.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/01/09/massa-suspects-alonso-knew-crashgate-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+f1fanatic+%28F1+Fanatic+-+The+Formula+1+Blog%29

[sagi58]

Always a "good" reason, eh??