This was all about Alonso throwing his toys out of the pram :
Hamilton signs up for Mclaren.
Hamilton does better than Alonso.
Alonso gets peed off.
Alonso resorts to cheating and blackmail.
2007-09-15 08:28:42 · 9 answers · asked by Linux Mint 11 7 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ Formula One
I think in your own very original way you have summed up a major part of the so called spy saga. McLaren has Alonso to thank for the fine and Championship exclusion. Ferrari would probably like to thank him truly. Without Alonso the FIA wouldn't have had enough proof to prosecute them other than some lists of calls provided by italian police that supposedly took part between Stepney and Coughlan which proves nothing, they had no recordings of them.
So, let's just clear the facts. Alonso became so desperate to get a winning car that he didn't stop at anything to do so. He thought that he'd seize the moment, right before the council, to blackmail poor Ron. But Ron had enough of this already and apparently didn't care anymore or thought he was just bluffing to get priority so he told Alonso to go ahead. wow. Who would do that to his own team? If he was so righteous that he needed by all means to report it, then why hasn't he reported the whole thing in march or whenever he was getting ferrari info? haha. I'll tell you why, because he is not righteous, he is a cheat with good driving skills. nothing more.
2007-09-16 12:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by dyno p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think McLaren is the guilty party, not Ferrari as some have claimed. And I believe Alonso is involved 'cause there's evidence in the e-mails between him and Pedro de la Rosa (McLaren's test driver).
He does have motives for doing that too. He moves into a new team (McLaren), hoping to repeat the success he had in Renault. Then suddenly Lewis Hamilton appears, taking the F1 world by storm... and all hope is lost.
Lewis steals away his possible wins, points and even spotlight! How bad is that? What's more, Lewis is not just anybody's teammate but Alonso's and is outdoing him and doing better than a regular rookie. So, I'm not surprised if that made Alonso do something against the law that will clearly benefit him.
Alonso-guilty.
2007-09-16 01:25:04 · answer #2 · answered by , 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more complicated that what the public knows.
When Ron signed a contract with Alonso, no one knew Hamilton would be this good. And at that time, McLaren car was not even a winning car, yet with lots of smoking engine issues even right up to 2006, the car was crap.
So how did Ron manage to get a 2 times world champion over to his team that at that time, is anything but a wining car? We don't know the details of the contract but I'd bet that Ron made Alonso some good promise that he'll have the entire team behind him, and who knows what else did Ron promise him besides the huge pay check.
Now, everything change and went beyond the team's expectation. They suddenly have a rookie that is beating their number 1 driver. How could Ron keep his promise in this situation? He can't, and Alonso reacted negatively.
The way Alonso reacted is wrong, but for the motivation behind it, I guess anyone would be disappointed too and felt cheated.
2007-09-15 23:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by Hornet One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like i said on the response about the Alonso blackmailing allegations, I agree Alonso never thought this would occur to him after joining McLaren, he felt that since he was a 2 time championship winner that he would be the leader of the team and call all the shots, he never thought Hamilton would be as good a driver as he has shown, nor did he think that McLaren would try to help both drivers to win.
2007-09-15 11:39:02 · answer #4 · answered by F1 Fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to be sincere I have no idea what to make of it simply but. Apart from the seen boredom F1 does not want this correct now, neither will we, we've a well wrestle happening and feature already misplaced a staff so we will do with out. Still, must it's proved that Renault have damaged the principles they must be punished and justice must be served. Or probably now not. FIA aren't a court docket of legislation so I'm now not certain I recognise what I'm speaking approximately besides. Equal healing maybe? There's cash worried and there is no justice on this planet, allow on my own Formula one so I wish it is going away.
2016-09-05 15:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the cheating blame is squarely on Alonso (although the blackmail....maybe). I think the cheating is classic entrapment by Ferrari, and McLaren played right in to their hands. Ferrari put out the honey pot and Caughlan flew in and got stuck. McLaren management reacted reasonably once they found out what Caughlan, Alonso and de la Rosa were up to. McLaren got things under control, but then Alonso, presumably threatened by Hamilton, incriminated himself and de la Rosa in exchange for immunity and McLaren take the fall. Totally stinks.
2007-09-15 21:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by graphex 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fernando Alonso is a piece of rubbish. The scandal is probably nothing that hasn't been done before but someone messed up somewhere and information got leaked to the wrong peeps.
2007-09-15 20:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was really Ron Denis the one that turned the start button of cheating on. He has not won a championship since 98 and this was his big chance. However, he never thought that his 2 pilots will be fighting and creating so much noice so media was focus in that team.
2007-09-15 16:58:41 · answer #8 · answered by latin_racer0376 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as Ron said 'have you never said something in the heat of the moment and then regretted it'. Alonso got on one, argued with Ron, threatened him, apologised, retracted his threat, all done and dusted. Ron himself went to the FIA. Alonso is going to get crucified over this one, but he is not wholly to blame in this situation. Stepney is the one who started all of this cr@p.
2007-09-16 01:06:56 · answer #9 · answered by val f1 nutter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋