Unless you want to count Michael Andretti. In any case it probably only strenghtens your argument ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gm99
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Unless you want to count Michael Andretti. In any case it probably only strenghtens your argument ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gm99
Few points to dicuss...
Vodafone will pay 'anything' to keep Hamiltion?
Anybody condiser if Alonso wins 3 champs in a row, he might retire?
McLaren need Hamilton, more than Hamilton needs McLaren?
Maybe Lewis can set a car up better than Alonso
Is Alonso really that ultra-special? Or was Renaults moving ballest making him look special?
Could Lewis get out of McLaren contract, even if he wanted to?
Everybody is scared of Kimi on his day. Alonso will not jump from the frying pan into the fire. Is BMW his only option?
Could Vodafone follow Lewis to Ferrari?
If Alonso moves to BMW and gets beaten by Hienfield, is his career over?
Mclaren 2008:
Lewis Hamilton
Kimi Raikkonen..
you heard it here first ;)
Like a few others who have posted here recently, I'm thinking Alonso stays, not Lewis.
And because I'm a fan of Giancarlo's, I'm also inclined to think that signing him may be a great thing for McLaren. Consider the reasons:
1. It's very clear that McLaren takes a big risk in having two top drawer drivers.
2. They have a ton of money already invested in Fernando. I don't believe they have Lewis on a retainer for next season.
3. Fernando and Giancarlo have been mates before with great success--two WDCs and a manufacture's champsionship, which Ron covets more than the other.
4. Giancarlo is universally beloved by all his former bosses and their teams. And even though he is clearly not a top line driver his team respects him a great deal. IN other words, he is very loyal and can keep the mechanics happy, and we have recently seen the McLaren boys made extremely unhappy.
5. If McLaren and Renault pull a switch, and Lewis goes to Renault, I think that Ron will still feel he has a better overall driver line-up than Renault.
6. Ron may even think he would arguably have a better line-up than Ferrari; after all, GF bested Massa when the two were at Sauber. And it seems that, since Michael has left, Ferrari has rediscovered how to screw up (and thereby occasionally leave points on the table).
7. I think Fisichella would do it for less than 5 million a year, maybe for as little as 3M. IMO Hamilton, who may go into '08 as the reigning champion with 2 or 3 more wins, would ask for twice that.
This link is posted in the Alonso and McLaren thread but I thought I'd reproduce it here as it is relevant to the discussion here.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle2211563.ece
Regardless of who is or is not the better driver, RD would look real foolish to drop the one with mclaren in his blood, the one of ten years investment, the one true hope of all britain for a wdc, a rookie wdc no less...and if he was so inclined, it would be long after this season is over.....he would just be flat out admitting that "I goofed" by letting LH go and keeping the recycled one known as FA at mclaren
No way...and if he did, all of Britain would rise up in arms agsinst him......so RD will privately and publicily support LH to the fullest (except as necssary to avoid sanction)
And FA may not see the carrot and the stick for what it is, and as they say, hope springs eternal in the heart of man...
LH will have to self-destruct totally and completely, and RD will do everything to prevent that...now if enough happens later after the season is over, who is to say, as in Watergate, follow the money to know the answer to that one....
My tip McLaren 2008:
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Someone else Ron Dennis' boy
The series no need recycled driver ;) :D
i think that Alonso is quicker the LH and he also know how to set up a car ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalafi
WHere in hell did you hear that he had a fit before he left Renault , please stop making untrue statement ....Quote:
Originally Posted by DonnieDarco
You are not alone, Alonso also thinks he is faster, unfortunately for him the numbers up until now says that LH has been a little bit faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timber