Hill: McLaren move right for Alonso

[fly_ac]

Yes!


You have to remember with the Alonso move it wasn't "I've just won two world championships, lets now look for a new challenge" it was more like "Holy crap, Renault are going to pull out of F1 and Ron is offering me mega £££, I'm off!"

So what were Hill's excuse when he left Williams?

[fly_ac]

You, my good man, need a lesson in F1 history:

The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix.

Did Hill win any WDC after Williams, my good man?

[Mark]

So what were Hill's excuse when he left Williams?

It was like

Frank Williams: Damon, You're fired!
Damon: Bugger.

[Ranger]

Did Hill win any WDC after Williams, my good man?

Nope, I don't need a lesson about that. :

[fly_ac]

It was like

Frank Williams: Damon, You're fired!
Damon: Bugger.

So would wmcot post be correct, I surely agree with that.

......I'm not sure he's the best one to judge when it's right to change teams.
As for Alonso, time will tell...

[Mark]

Well yes, Alonso is very different from Damon Hill. Hill didn't want to leave Williams, he was forced into it.

If you want to draw a similarity then the best one is with JPM, left a sucessful stint with Williams to join McLaren where I'm sure even he will admit he ended up performing poorly.

[fly_ac]

Well yes, Alonso is very different from Damon Hill. Hill didn't want to leave Williams, he was forced into it.

If you want to draw a similarity then the best one is with JPM, left a sucessful stint with Williams to join McLaren where I'm sure even he will admit he ended up performing poorly.

I weren't drawing any similarity between anyone. The argument were that Hill isn't in the best of possitions to judge, if it is a good move for Alonso to have gone to McLaren or not. I think the best judge of that is Time.

[samuratt]

It is time for Alonso to show if it was the right move or not, and I don't think anybody else than him knows exactly why he left Renault.

Altough i am sure it has something to do with money rather than machinery. Renault was not wiiling to expend more than 12 million € a year inhis salary, and bearing in mind that Kimi (no WDC at all) was already earning 20 million at McLaren he would not consider that fair, and he left.

[SteveA]

Poor chap- how does he manage on 12 million € a year?

[Big Ben]

smaller salary, renault's refusal (at the moment) to commit to the sport, poor form in the second-half... the man had his reasons.... it's interesting to see that a team that won two back to back wcc has difficulties forming a decent line-up.