Sunday, April 6, 2008

I was gonna lay off.. but then...

Had lunch - my usual F Combo - Fruit and Fillet of Fish - dunno why I am writing this down - not important, but just felt like sharing.

Came back to this from the following link:
http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3265_3393813,00.html

Fernando Alonso, Renault, 10th
Renault are striving hard to show that Alonso did nothing wrong in Bahrain but there's something odd going on. If they were the innocent party why aren't they a bit more angry at Lewis Hamilton for modifying their car's rear wing with his front tyres?

Now, should Renault neglect to share the telemetry result, or go on an offensive against Hamilton, there will of course be yells from all corners saying that Alonso is a primadonna and why aren't they sharing the telemetry if they are so blameless, etc etc. Oh, oh.. don't forget the fact that Alonso has it "in" against Hamilton hence the cries for investigation, and if it had been Kubica, or Rosberg that had run against him, things would have been forgotten - (if you are not following my train of thoughts here - the word IF above shows that this paragraph is hypothetical.)

In this case, Hamilton has already said it was his fault (though he also claims that Alonso was at fault as the latter had moved to the right, when he himself showed movement to the right.. whatever - the child's trying to get someone to kiss his little boo-boo!) Renault has chosen to be the "bigger" guys and walk away - incidents happen, accidents happen, no harm no foul. But then again, it just shows the level of bias in comments against Alonso and his team.

Let's go on to the next item brought up in the same link:

In the race today he decided to indulge in some more by waving his gloves at Timo Glock for daring to drive his Toyota on the racing line.

Or maybe Pat Symmonds will explain that Fernando had an insect in his glove that he was trying to shake out.


urrr.. honestly? All I saw was a guy putting up his hands in his car seat, but it seems to be more out of frustration given the pace of his car. It is to be expected for a person as driven and passionate about performance - to be overtaken by a Toyota must be extremely frustrating. The writer must have done the same at some point in his/her life - putting his/her hands up in the face of insurmountable obstacles, it is a normal thing to do if you are human. In my case, I would probably have banged my head against the steering wheel... but then again, that's why I am not an F1 driver.

Alonso was waving a hand and I don't see it being directed to Timo Glock, NOT the way Hammy was obviously showing his finger at Fisi. Who is the brat here? Are we seeing the same coverage?? But then again, it must have been a REAL slow news day, for the writer to comment on hand-waving in the face of all the other REAL racing stuff.

And the ending of this "enlightened" paragraph was:

Alonso is the Naomi Campbell of F1, the man most in need of anger management therapy. Perhaps it's the lack of progress at Renault that's getting to him.

hmmm... so the guy's passionate. He has YET to throw a mobile phone at any unfair commentators or writers. If he finally does it.. I will applaud him all the way!

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