Renault bollixed it completely at Shanghai and they know it -
hell they came out and said it themselves. What was Alonso supposed
to say, "Great, lads - you're doing a bang-up job"? He pointed out
the obvious and there's nothing wrong with that at all.
For starters, when another team besides Ferrari starts showing
an advantage, they get investigated and penalised by the FIA.
Classic case in point: Renault's mass dampers. Charlie Whiting knew
about those dampers for a year and a half, and it was fine by him
all that time. Why the sudden change of heart once Ferrari started
bleating about it?
Let's not forget the Michelin sidewall-flex investigation. You HAVE
been watching closely enough to remember that one, haven't
you?
To date, nobody can justify why Alonso got the blocking penalty at
Monza, but gee, it worked, didn't it? After all, it allowed your
hero to catch up in the points.
I'll get to the murder that Scum's been allowed to get away with
later in this post.
Fisichella's always sucked as a team mate. Think about the
pairings in past years: Mansell-Piquet, Prost-Senna, Scum and his
fanboys - has there ever been consistently such a wide gap between
drivers in the same championship-leading team? Fisichella sucks,
and that's a fact - in the same car he doesn't do anything
resembling what Alonso does.
I've got no problems with one driver supporting the other at a
point at which one clearly has more of a chance at the championship
than the other. Having your team mate pull over and let you through
in only the sixth race of the season, on the other hand, is plain
stupid.
Or do you think the 30,000 people jeering and giving the
thumbs-down at Austria had no concept of team orders?
Well, if you want to start off calling another driver crybaby,
don't be a crybaby yourself. If you can't take the heat, get out of
the kitchen and, even better, don't start anything you can't
finish.
Stewart, no, Lauda, yes - I've got plenty of fellow F1 nuts who
are more than happy to show me their old footage. In Lauda's case,
think Japan 1976 - how much balls would it take to get back in a
car after you've been deep-fried in one a few short weeks before,
and how much balls would it take to defy Il Commendatore himself by
pointing out what a deathtrap that race was? Now there's a real
champion. In Stewart's case, it's not only his racing, but his
drive to make F1 safer - he was from a time when you expected to
lose three or four drivers in a season. Quite the opposite to Scum
who doesn't care if his kamikaze tactics kill anybody.
If there's anybody who knows how desperate Scum can get when
he's under pressure, it's Hill (and Villeveuve as well). There's
nobody more qualified to talk about Scum's lack of sportsmanship.
He's up there with Lauda and Stewart (and THE man Stirling Moss)
who knows what a sport F1's supposed to be.
Oh. My. God. You can't possibly be serious.
You think grooved tyres and engine changes are to prevent Ferrari
domination? I think you've been watching the wrong channel there,
tiger.
Think this one through slowly and carefully. Do grooved tyres
affect only Ferrari? Are there any other teams that use the same
tyres? Given that Scum's just experienced his first engine failure
in five years, how was the engine change rule suppose to
disadvantage him?
Scum got away with punting Hill off the track at Adelaide, despite
the video evidence showing that he clearly checked his mirrors and
saw Hill coming before he decided to make an otherwise
unexplainable swerve across the track. The FIA didn't offer a peep
of protest when Rubens blatantly pulled over for him twice at
Austria. Hell, Rubens was less happy with it than Max was.
Yet, when Alonso was a full 100 metres ahead of Massa at Monza,
they got their knickers in a twist and took away his best
qualifying times.
Put it together for yourself. It's not rocket science to see whose
favour the imbalance swings towards.
I'm not getting personal. You're the one getting all weepy. To
use your own word, crybaby. 