Should Alonso be forced to give way to Hamilton?

Question

After the disgusting behaviour, once again, by Fernando Alonso, should he be punished? For holding Lewis up, thus preventing Lewis getting his Qualifying lap in, should he give way at the start of tomorrow's race? Should Ron Dennis sack him? or should they hold him up at the first pit stop, for double the number of seconds that he help Lewis up by? Hamilton would have got Pole Position (P1) and Alonso knew it. We have seen, on a few ocassions, Fernando going into a five year old child's tantrum. McClaren shouldn't put up with the Spaniards spoilt, bratish behaviour any longer. What do you think?

Answer 1

No this is blatent insubordination and he should be sacked, in Britain we have a saying "no 1 man is bigger than the team" this pathetic attempt could have backfired on the whole team. What would have happened had the BMWs, who where running well,had gone quicker than Hamilton? This proves he is running scared of hamilton,a rookie in his first year of the sport with more talent in his pinkie than alonso has in his whole body.

Answer 2

Hamilton should be given the chance to beat Alonso on merit alone.
To penalise Alonso on track would show clear favouritism to Hamilton from the team.
On the other hand, if Lewis beats him outright then the message to Alonso will be quite clear.
"You can hold me up and still not beat me?"
That would make Alonso's season much more frustrating don't you think?

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I'm sick of hearing about how spoiled Hamilton is. Lucky maybe, but is it his fault that Ron Dennis clearly thought he was worth the risk?
As for saying Alonso toiled in F1 with Minardi, so what? He wasn't a great driver for Minardi. In fact he had a team mate there who out shined him on more than one occasion.
If Hamilton is spoiled then so is Alonso I'm afraid. Alonso got his Renault drive because of who his manager was at the time, one Mr. Flavio Briatore if you forgot. Not sure if you remember but Jensen Button was kicked out of Renault to make way for Alonso. Now, why would someone do a thing like that to a competent driver like Button? Oh, it was because Trulli was also managed at the time by Briatore I believe and Briatore seemingly wanted a flaky team mate for cry baby Alonso so he would find it easy to look good.
Alonso had a team built around him and was made to feel like king of the castle.
At least Hamilton has some humility and manners and can be regarded as a courteous professional sportsman. Unlike Alonso who constantly behaves like a petulant child.

Answer 3

It's too early to speculate on what happend in the mcarens garage today, the commentators did not even know what was going on. We just have to wait until more light is shed on the situation before we can start blaming alonso and making a big deal out of something that could have just been a timing mistake by mclaren.

Seeng as both cars spent a considerable amount of time in the pits before exiting, it might be an issue with both cars that both drivers want fixed, theres really no way for us to tell from what we saw in qualifying.

Answer 4

this is what i have just read on http://www.itv-f1.com/Home.aspx no doubt the incident will be properly scrutinised and we will hear about it on the build up on itv before the race.


Fernando Alonso blamed his McLaren team for the hold-up that cost Lewis Hamilton a chance to fight for pole position in the closing stages of the Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session.

The world champion seized pole as he passed the chequered flag, having intentionally held up his team-mate in the pits as the pair stacked up for fresh tyres prior to their final runs.

The incident cost Hamilton, who had dominated the session, so much time that he could not complete his final flying lap.

"The team was holding me back in this," said Alonso.

"We tried to have a little bit of space, we had the Ferrari, in two stops, in front of us."

Television coverage of the incident appears to be in contrast to the Spaniard's view of events.

As Alonso sat impassively in the pits, Hamilton was forced to wait for nine seconds after the Spaniard's car service had been completed.

This despite McLaren personnel, including team principal Ron Dennis, frantically waving at their driver to vacate the box.

Alonso had behaved in a similar way during his first stop in the Top Ten shoot-out.

Afterwards Dennis was furious, grabbing Alonso's Spanish-speaking trainer and marching him down to Parc Ferme to speak to his driver.

A staged team celebration shot was then put on for waiting photographers.

ITV Sport's Ted Kravitz attempted to get a view from Dennis, who was visibly annoyed, but was rebuffed twice.

"We will discuss it later when it's been discussed in the team," he declared.

Hamilton's manner was also curt in the post-session press conference, and when asked if he knew the reasons behind the hold-up he replied: "No I think you should ask the team that."

The world championship leader clearly felt his car was capable of competing for pole position but would not be drawn into speaking publicly about his frustration.

"Not really much to say, I think you saw what happened," he said.

"I have been very quick today which was good. We have made improvements over the weekend, the team did a fantastic job, as always to get the car cooled down so we were first out into Q3 and yeah we had a very good pace."

Answer 5

No. He got what he deserved- five places down the grid. I think that's fair enough.

Alonso can't accept defeat- that's probably why he is doing all this so that he can clinch the title comfortably without having to worry about outdoing Lewis. But it is normal for drivers to get frustrated and vent out their anger, so maybe Alonso will be forgiven.

Answer 6

Hell yes , I definitely think that alonso should be penalised , and penalised severely , as last year in monaco when Michael Shcumacher held alonso up on his flying lap (which was never fully proven that it was intentional + he only held him up not prevented him from doing a flying lap ), Michael was penalised and started from the back of the grid. So I definitely think that alonso should be punished.

Answer 7

Alonso should just grow up. He be punished, We will have to wait and see what happens.

I can't belive what some people have put in there answers, I don't know what these people were watching but it can't of been the F1 on ITV.

Answer 8

Spoiled? Alonso toiled in F1 with Minardi. Lewis has his road paved for him and started in the fastest car. You tell me who is spoiled.

There's no question that Alonso will be held up in retaliation tomorrow.

Answer 9

I think he should be held up in the first pit stop for the same number of seconds that he held up Hamilton.

Answer 10

No