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LS.
i wouldnt be suprised it the way the car direction is heading to Alonso's driving style by Ferrari to maximise their return for the largest driver wage in F1.
That's worked well at RBR, with Webber leading Vettel, despite the team favouritism (arguable against, but all 'dubious' decisions have ended up working to Vettel's favour (and downfall in Istanbul) - much the same as the Button-Rubens dubious decisions all favouring Button last year - though that did work out in the team's favour).
In my opinion, so far Ferrari have been 1-sided all year, but only once has it been through team choice - Alonso was destroying Massa and the first chance Massa had to get one over him, the team ordered him to move over.
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SchueyFan
I disagree. I think Alonso actually had a lot of very good luck at the start of the year. For example, the Safety Cars in Melbourne, China and Monaco gave him a great chance to get points (China did benefit Massa as well). A lot of his those situations were due to his own mistakes, not bad luck, such as the jump start in China, the crash at Turn 1 in Melbourne and the crash in practice at Monaco.
Bad judgement, perhaps, and maybe some good luck and racing to rescue races, certainly, but even in the races where Alonso had potentially race-wrecking penalties or made mistakes, he finished around or ahead of Massa. We're not talking about the sort of luck Hamilton had in Monaco 2008, where a mistake which should have ended his race actually won it for him. As I said, even with all of Alonso's errors, he's
still 30 points up (Hockenheim corrected - 44 points otherwise).
I like Massa (it's difficult not to) and was heartbroken when he had the title won and then snatched from his grasp (as much as I was throbbing with excitement at the same time), but all season when a camera has shown a Ferrari making a small mistake you barely need to check the helmet to know who's behind the wheel.
Even today, when we saw a Ferrari in the gravel at Rivage, I immediately thought "well, that'll be Massa then", and the BBC commentators said "that's Alonso, isn't it?" I had to do a double check and thought it was Alonso myself, however, later in the lap, Alonso was on for the fastest time and it was indeed Massa who was recovering. Even when you don't think it's Massa, it's Massa!
How much says Alonso finishes ahead of Massa tomorrow?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2010 09:53PM by gav.