A Serious question on how we, and the FIA judge drivers (Contains Korean GP Spoilers)
Posted by DaveEllis
Yeah I remember reading an article in F1 racing about how well Alonso and Trulli got on. But Flavio and Trulli definately didn't, leading to his replacement with Villeneuve.
loque Wrote:
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> I think Alonso is actually a really nice guy, he
> just wants to do his job but hates the media, the
> british media in particular because of the whole
> Hamilton thing
It's the whole celebrity culture thing that the Media (in particular tabloid branch) completely overdo. Thing is... you won't find many drivers who actively enjoy and seek out media duties, pretty much none of them ever wanted to be famous or a celebrity, it's just an unfortunate side affect of being a competitor in one of the worlds most popular sporting events.
Much of what we read is simply made up, or copied made up stuff of copied made up stuff, (you get the drift), no wonder most of them hate it. For example Alonso and Hamilton actually get on fairly well, they might be big rivals on the track yet socially they get along very well, most of the press conveniently miss this and try to whip up a on track rivalry into a full on feud.
Alonso, like many of his peers is simply a bit shy, and he gets more attention than most because he's a double world champion, and considered to be one of the best currently in F1, if not the best in F1. And that attracts all kind of media stuff from all corners of the world, I highly doubt much of the media (with exception of the specialist papers and sites) have ever heard of Sakon Yamamoto, and wouldn't do unless he happened to crash into Alonso, Hamilton or Schumacher for example.
It comes down to this stupid big brother, celebrity, realityTV culture there is today, with people thinking that they somehow own these people, well they do not, and as far as I'm concerned they have as much entitlement to privacy as anyone else.
I would have dearly loved to have been a F1 driver.... but I would have hated the media/public attention, for one thing I'm not particularly good speaking in-front of small audience of people all of whom I know. I'd probably make Kimi look like Mr talkative charisma in a press/tv interview, I actually hate answering questions about myself. But I would have adored driving and racing the cars.
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> I think Alonso is actually a really nice guy, he
> just wants to do his job but hates the media, the
> british media in particular because of the whole
> Hamilton thing
It's the whole celebrity culture thing that the Media (in particular tabloid branch) completely overdo. Thing is... you won't find many drivers who actively enjoy and seek out media duties, pretty much none of them ever wanted to be famous or a celebrity, it's just an unfortunate side affect of being a competitor in one of the worlds most popular sporting events.
Much of what we read is simply made up, or copied made up stuff of copied made up stuff, (you get the drift), no wonder most of them hate it. For example Alonso and Hamilton actually get on fairly well, they might be big rivals on the track yet socially they get along very well, most of the press conveniently miss this and try to whip up a on track rivalry into a full on feud.
Alonso, like many of his peers is simply a bit shy, and he gets more attention than most because he's a double world champion, and considered to be one of the best currently in F1, if not the best in F1. And that attracts all kind of media stuff from all corners of the world, I highly doubt much of the media (with exception of the specialist papers and sites) have ever heard of Sakon Yamamoto, and wouldn't do unless he happened to crash into Alonso, Hamilton or Schumacher for example.
It comes down to this stupid big brother, celebrity, realityTV culture there is today, with people thinking that they somehow own these people, well they do not, and as far as I'm concerned they have as much entitlement to privacy as anyone else.
I would have dearly loved to have been a F1 driver.... but I would have hated the media/public attention, for one thing I'm not particularly good speaking in-front of small audience of people all of whom I know. I'd probably make Kimi look like Mr talkative charisma in a press/tv interview, I actually hate answering questions about myself. But I would have adored driving and racing the cars.
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