- 03 Jan 11, 20:30#232694
I agree with you. Everybody had his part to blame and his part of the punishment at the 2007 McLaren affair.
Where was Alonso Second driver? if anything up to Monaco Lewis was being treated as the 2nd driver, up to Monaco Alonso was happy as ever with the way things worked. Once Lewis complained about being number 2, quote "I have a number 2 on my car" McLaren didnt favour anyone which is where the s*** started hitting the fan with Alonso.
And Jack Master I thought you left? You made a melodramatic public exist right? So new username or not why?
Alonso and Hamilton never were equally treated. I’ve said before that his wife and friends had to go to the Renault boxes to follow the races because they couldn’t stand the way in what the whole team and its guest loudly supported Lewis against him.
The real turning point was at Monaco, were Lewis was complaining that he hasn’t won the race because the team had favored Alonso and Ron Dennis gave his excuses to the Media for that.
In Hungary Charlie Whiting penalized Alonso for something that, being unfair, was a team’s internal affair. There wasn’t any rule broken.
Alonso became this way more and more a second driver till the point that Ron Dennis said that they were racing against Alonso.
About the melodrama, you’re right, but nobody is perfect, I sincerely apologize. My change of user name is just a technical problem, I hope.
Alonso was favoured hugely at Monaco. The reason Mclaren escaped team order punishment was the fact it was monaco, the situation was unique and the team had to give the driveres different strategies to cover the advent if a safety car. It just happens that despite lewis being blazingly fast round there Alonso got the favoured strategy. Lewis complained after which strategies were shared out equally and Alonso kicked off about it.
The Hungary affair was more comlicated than it appeared.
Could you imagine for an instant that Bernie Ecclestone, Max Mosley, Charlie Whiting, Ron Dennis, Martin Whitmarsh and the whole team McLaren were Spaniards and Lewis Hamilton the only Briton in the team? And Fernando Alonso being also Spaniard and having been at McLaren since he was a little boy, after being second at Monaco, began to complain that he had lost in Monaco because his team had favored Lewis. When Lewis had made the pole and had held an advantage of several seconds during the entire race?
What would you have thought about that? What would have the British Media said?
Max mosely hates Ron Dennis' guts so you're coming from a wrong premise there. If Alonso couldnt handle racing for a mostly British team then thats another issues, and its his problem not the teams. Mclaren have handled all nationality drivers in their team, nationality is not an issue. It's a multinational sport with a large proportion of British engineers in all teams. Mclaren will take the best drivers on offer. Whatever you think of the British media(and id hazzard all national tabloids are the same) The drivers have to deal with it.
Alonso was favoured at Monaco that remains a fact.
i think that the mian problem was that alonso wasnt getting what he thought he was getting in the deal he signed in the middle of 2005, but then i dont think almost anyone could have foreseen how good lewis was and is but then i still feel that if alonso had got his head straight, then he may have won the title, but there we go
I agree with you. Everybody had his part to blame and his part of the punishment at the 2007 McLaren affair.