What did he say exactly?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
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What did he say exactly?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
A Red Bull car, thatīs what he asked for at his birthday. Ldm not so amused.
While his criticism of Ferrari is understandable and warranted, Fernando has made a critical mistake - he's publically put his own interest over that of the team. The last one, who did that was Prost and he was fired before the end of the season for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mia 01
TJ13 reported today that there might be an announcement coming at Monza that he compared to a Richter 9 earthquake, so I wonder if Alonso has locked horns with the team one time too often
I don't blame him. Ferrari has given him sh!t in the last four years. I would be frustrated as hell. He gives 120% every time. He's made that truck look like a racecar for the last four years! Next year won't be any different. Mercedes and Renault are already predicted to have the best engine packages. Ferrari will look like a joke again. If not for Fernando, Ferrari would have easily finished as the third or fourth best team in each of the last four years. I seriously hope the big announcement is Fernando leaving the team and going to RB, or Lotus, or just "anybody else's car"!
Pathetic. Gonna be a long second half of the season :-(
Someone asked him what he really wanted for his birthday. His reply was: "Someone else's car!"Quote:
Originally Posted by N4D13
Well, arguably the 2010 Fezza wasn't as bad as you make it sound. After all he went into the last race in premium position, but they covered Webber and got stuck behind a Russian pay driver in a clapped-out Clio. It was his to lose and he lost it, so before bashing the team, he also has to answer some question. Despite only having the 3rd best car last year, he went into the last race still with a chance to beat the second best car - the best for most of the season, McLaren, had gracefully taken themselves out of contention by cheating Lewis out of a ****load of points by various pit blunders.Quote:
Originally Posted by kfzmeister
But, if you look at the Austin GP. If it wasn't for the grid-skullduggery and Massa giving up his place, he would've handed Vettel the title right there and then. It was a lacklustre race at best.
Schumacher spent 4 seasons in a car that couldn't challenge for the title, but he never went around slagging off the team in public. That's why Alonso has 2 WDC and Schumacher has 7. Schumacher helped to make the team great. Alonso just wastes his time by not showing up for YTD's if given the chance, moaning about the team and generally making himself look like a complete berk by ridiculous Samurai tweets and useless psycho-games with RB/Vettel. Trust me on that, with these antics he won't go nowhere in the RB as well, while Vettel has the advantage of a close friendship with Schumacher, so he can get the team-building 101 from one of the best.
While I am a Schumacher fan, then there is no point in talking about his team building. Drivers do not build teams, nor do they build or design cars. Their job is to drive. If they get the most out of the car, then their job is done. No matter how much "team-building" they do, if the engineers and managers are fools, then nothing will change. So I would not put any blame on Alonso. He has given his most, yet the team keeps producing monkey cars. What must also bother Alonso is that there is no progress. They started off quite well in 2010 and it seemingly gets worse and worse all the time. He must have realized things will not get better for him soon, only worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster
Ferrari's problem now is that Luca foolishly got rid of Jean Todt a couple of years ago, who was the perfect guy for the job and the best boss in F1, who should have been valued like a diamond. Stupid Luca though couldn't stand how valued Todt was and did his best to get rid of him. Well, good job Luca, keep throwing those TVs out the window. I am sure Todt would be retired by now anyway, but keeping a guy like that for even 2-3 more years would have been a win. Stefano is weakling and a joke as a Ferrari team boss. More of a yes man, than a Ferrari leader.
What is YTD?
What is really funny in all this is how stupid Luca really is. He had the perfect team player in Kimi (as much as top level F1 drivers can be team players), but he made sure Ferrari did their best to get rid of him and not use him properly. Developments went away from him, everything. So Luca got his wish and got the perfect Ferrari driver - emotional, not silent and cold like Kimi. Of course Loony Luca never paid attention to the baggage of Alonso, who has shown he will not hold back with what he says and will always put his interests in front of the team. Now he pays the price for that. There is a reason why the calculating and straight-thinking Todt preferred Kimi over Alonso and why the emotional Luca prefers Alonso over Kimi.
With Kimi, there would never have been a need for such a statement from Luca, problems always stayed within the team, even in 2009 when the car sucked. Same with Schumacher really.
A typo. It should be YDT (Young Drivers Test). Alonso categorically declined to work for Pirelli. That's an utterly stupid attitude. Especially with the revised tyres, he should have had the biggest interest in getting running time on it. Why did all of his competitors run? I simply couldn't imagine that Schumacher would ever have pulled a diva-stunt like that. As you said. Alonso thinks he's bigger than the team. In that regard he could be vettel's bestest buddy. They both share that particular predicament.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
Yeah, I thought YTD should mean Year To Date and wondered why would you use that there :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster
Why did Alonso refuse that? That makes no sense at all. I did not pay attention to F1 news for a while, so I have not heard of that. But if he really refused to test then that is really diva behaviour and stupid. Makes his complaints about the car look quite absurd. Stefano should have set him straight, Todt would have.
F1 drivers tend to have huge egos and let's face it, in sports to be on the top you need that. But then there are egomaniacs who would put me to shame :laugh: , Alonso is one of those.
AFAIK, he was scheduled to run, but has publicly stated: "I don't work for Pirelli." I think that will most likely have contributed to the rather strained atmosphere at Maranello. The "secret" Pirelli tests were done by Massa and de la Rosa, the YDT without Alonso, too. Could you imagine Schumacher refuse so many chances to test, even at a time when it was still unlimited? Quite frankly, Alonso is a brilliant driver, but his work ethics start to look a bit questionable and if he continues that, he won't go anywhere at RB either, because those guys ain't gonna be impressed by Samurai tweets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker