Current Fernando Alonso

Suprised there's no thread (although I had one for his blogs), so i'll start off:

A double world championship vs Raikkonen and then Schumacher in 2005 and 2006 respectively elevated Alonso's status but, apparently, no one told his rookie teammate at his brand new team of a theoretical 'pecking order' the following season ... and the Spaniard was 'seen off' by the young Englishman, Hamilton, into two years of Wilderness while both Hamilton and an even younger Vettel began to make their mark through '08 and '09.

Arguably, Alonso was in the Top 3 of all the Formula One 'Aces' in the 2000s following Hakkinen's retirement - up there with either Schumacher/Raikkonen and, then, Raikkonen/Hamilton - and remains so in the early 2010s along with Hamilton/Vettel...with only Kubica knocking on the door until the Pole's horrible Rallying accident.

A question mark initially over 2004 during which Trulli lead him in the standing until the Italian fell out with ex-manager and team boss Flavio Briatore (Alonso's then business manager) under dubious circumstances after the French Grand Prix.

Another question mark is...Who has progressed more since the end of 2007: Hamilton or Alonso?

A fan. Then came the unfortunate blackmail allegations against McLaren boss Ron Dennis on the morning of the 2007 Hungarian GP which came to light at the highly costly FIA 'Spy-Gate' hearings before Spa...followed by the odour of the deliberate crashing of the Number 2 Renault car at Singapore in 2008 which lead to Alonso finishing 1st in the event and ended in the banning of Briatore and Pat Symmonds a year later.

2009 was a poor year with 'Nando's' mind likely on the prospect of Santander paving the way to better prospects at Maranello one year earlier.

2010 was a fresh start at Ferrari (who no longer had Schumacher walking through the premises regularly) but first half season mistakes ultimately cost him a title inspite of being infamously aided by a Team Orders switch w Massa at Hockenheim (which lead to more world-wide criticism).

Relatively fast, relatively consistent but prone to mistakes and a possible insecurity complex (*) based on wanting sole focus from a team and being only happy with a Number 2 in the other car running behind him. Anything else and it seemingly rattles him.

(*) This is my own personal opinion.

..and so to 2011...

He's underperformed only at Malaysia (hit Hamilton) and China (invisible while Massa challenged McLarens and Red Bulls) and, arguably, Canada...but has maximized his chances in the other 6 races culminating in the British GP win.

He said in his post-Monaco blog that 'Silverstone would be the WDC cut-off'...and so, after some major upgrades, the Ferrari looks a winner again. It might be too late for 2011 given Vettel's finishing rate...but the 2012 regs means they should keep the hammer down at Maranello.

He's signed on through to 2016...So hopes are high of a WDC at some juncture...but not yet.
 
Calm down chap. Was a valid point and query. I had no idea you'd changed your avatar in response to me. I thought you were an Alonso fan.

Well......that escalated quickly.
 
It would not surprise me in the slightest if this was his last season in F1. As we all know there are really 3 teams that can with the WCC and WDC and I don't believe Alonso is an attractive option to them compared to the drivers they already have.
 
Apparently he went on to say that Singapore 2008 was his greatest F1 win and probably the greatest performance ever seen in Formula 1. Also he stated he invented the beard and that the cheese toastie be made before Le Mans was considered by most the world's greatest sandwich.

*Sigh*

Everytime I read a quote from Alonso it's Flavio's voice in my head saying it. Has Mark Webber written an article/done an interview yet saying how amazing the victory was?
 
Oh! Ok so the Flavio stable has fallen out huh? I guess Webber has been trying to win Le Mans for years and is annoyed Alonso managed to organise a win prior to entering on his first try.
 
In a passionate after race interview today Fernando Alonso stated that his entire race strategy had been designed on him qualifying 16th and so he had deliberately gone out and qualified there.

"It was one of my best performance in F1 and ranks up there with some of the great drives in F1 history......which have also been mainly by me. I really had to judge how slow to make the car go".

"It really was a performance of class showing what a great talent the man is" said a random suck up journaliat "He is Def getting a 9.5 in the sky ratings"

Reports McLaren were so please they gave Fernando two Freddo Frog bars cannot be confirmed.
 
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