BlueRiver86

Digrassi is a StrekStrekStrekStreking ****. He almost called himself out while trying to flirt with FA..

MJSpeed

There's a difference between saying the team isn't pushing hard enough and being a prima dona. Funny thing is, everyone of his critics bash him for saying what and how he feels. Frankly I find it refreshing to see a pro athlete with that much to lose tell the truth instead of regurgitating the team's publicist's company line. Like what Hamilton does when he knows the media is watching.

I've agreed that he acted poorly (i.e. like a prima donna) during this time. And did you really think that Ron Dennis was going to fire his bitch? No way, FA was always the odd man out.

Again there's a difference between saying the team isn't pushing hard enough and being a prima dona. Again he was just saying the truth.

It's not a joke. He is and has been since joining the Scuderia.

Funny you should say that because it did happen to him whilst at Renault in Hungary; no complaints from him.

Besides, it's not like Ferrari hasn't had engine problems this year and yet no complaint. As a matter of fact technical director, Stefano Domenical was more critical and showed more concern than Alonso did, who btw just said that he was "100% confident in the team's ability to resolve the issue."

Your giving one guy credit and criticizing another and don't know **** about what's really happening. Rubens may have told the Williams team to fix something and was told not to worry about that everything would be fine. Obviously it wasn't. I don't know that as much as what you know. Oh yeah and one other thing, Rubens could've been killed, Jenson not so much.

When was the last time a mechanic risked his life out on the track and/or relied/put his life in someone else's hands? If the mechanic ***** up, the driver gets hurt and/or can die. If the driver ***** up, the driver gets hurt and/or can die. Notice that in either scenario nothing happens to the mechanic. So if I die or get hurt because I fcuked up, that's one thing but if the guys I trust with my life and rely on their work to keep me safe, **** up, yes **** yes I'd be pissed!! Their (mechanics') mistake can cost me my life. Besides if demand perfection of myself (and all drivers at that level do), then I expect the same of everyone else around me.

Pete if people don't like Alonso, that's one thing but they should be equal opportunity critics as well as give credit to someone who makes changes for self improvement purposes.

MJSpeed

+1

Since his days in IndyCar ('80's) 'till now, his designs and vision are truly the bees' knees!

A.Wayne

I would like to thank my mechanics , the wheels are still intact .....

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333pg333

Essentially for a track that should really be superceded due to speed, I also enjoyed watching Alonso carve through the tail of the field through the kink at the end of the tunnel.
It's really a bit of a silly race but glad to see Webber prevail. Now we hear Ferrari is sniffing around him so perhaps his stocks are rising and he'll get some credit finally....

Jimbo951

Post-race, MS has been given a drive-through penalty. Since it's after the race, the penalty has been converted into a 20 second penalty. MS goes from 6th to 12th.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/5/10799.html

rickmdz

I know. What I'm saying is if MS overtook FA misled by the green flags maybe they can make him give up that position and finish in the 7th spot as opposed to being penalized for knowingly doing something against regulations.

Also +1 for Newey. Even the five times Champion JM Fangio said: "It's car racing, not men racing"

A.Wayne

Under rule 40.13, which states that "if the race ends whilst the safety car is deployed it will enter the pitlane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking," Schumacher has been given a penalty.


The race was already hooooveeer .. hence the penalty ......

chris walrod

Anyone catch the LH whine back to his team about telling him to go easy on the front brakes? LH is really turning out to be very critical of the very entity that nurtured him into F1.

Its well known LH winds in a ton of front brake bias -- meaning he struggles with controlling his car with much rear bias -- wimp

FredC

No question about it, Alonso drove fantastically. But no one benefited as much as he did from the first SC. I think Weber was the drive of the day. That guy is on fire - what's up with that?

On the MS topic, I think Rosberg will have to get used to seeing the back of Schumi's car. Barring the call at the end of the race, it seems to me that the old man is getting back to being the top performer he once was. That's fun to watch and that is good for F1.

Lastly, I must say that I take great pleasure in seeing LH struggle. Serious attitude problem.

Larry Herman

Just try and think about this dispassionately.

Alonso saves 22 seconds by the dispatch of the safety car, passes 6 of the slowest cars, secures 12 positions through pit stops, and then benefits from another safety car to close up the gaps. Excellent drive, but eliminate the SC, deduct those 22 seconds and where would he have been?

Webber never puts a wheel wrong, drives away from everyone including his teammate and wins handily. Eliminate the SC and Webber would have won by 30 some seconds. At least an equal drive in my mind.

MJSpeed

Larry,

I disagree. Webber's was THE "drive of the day", in that he didn't make any mistakes and had the whole field covered as far as speed.

Alonso's drive was awesome from a strategic point of view, much like many of Schumi's old drives from the past, where he (Alonso, like Schumi before him) did what they had to do to make the strategy work. Alonso and Ferrari didn't know when nor how many SC periods there would be, but when they did come, they took full advantage of them. They deserve some credit for that. Start 24th anywhere and finish 6th is no easy task at all, but to that at Monaco, well that's just in a different league all together. Yesterday's race proved to me that Alonso & la Scuderia are working real well together. That's no good news for the rest of the grid. Sooner or later they will stop having this many issues and then look out. Even with all the things that have gone wrong for FA this season, he's only 3 points behind in Championship.

Oh and you should know better than to what if anything in motor racing. What if he doesn't screw up and crash on Saturday and can actually qualify, where would he had qualified and ultimately finished? It works both ways. You can't what if Motorsports.

gums

The SC had a very big impact on the race. Had it come out again before the first round of pit stops, then Alonso would have leapfrogged even further up.
More importantly, each time it came out it compressed the field, giving Weber a clear track instead of having to deal with backmarkers. A big risk at Monaco was averted. Even though he was clearly the fastest, he had it all going his way.

Sean F

kovalainen nearly put his car in the water coming out of the tunnel he moved over so fast

gums

Lastly, giving Schu a 20 sec penalty when everyone is queued behind the SC is as good as disqualifying him. Not that he didn't deserve it. Can you imagine if he'd have taken Alonso out?