Originally posted by Gh0stFT
Stewards for what ? he was fighting his 2nd place, what have you expected ? lol
him not "eating" three chicanes, for instance?. He did it twice with De La Rosa (and first time he didn't give way to Pedro like he should've done...FIA doesnt' sanction him...well, not unexpected anyway), and one with Heifield?...
Schumacher is not the "cleanest" pilot around and we all know it. No surprise here, Gh0st. He's the best F1 pilot of the history ,but someone who simply kicks the man who was challenging him for the championship out of the last race of the season in order to avoid having to cleanly racing him (a-la-his move against Damon Hill in Australia), is a dirty opponent, no matter how brilliant he is on the weel.
I'm proud of De la Rosa. Magnific race he did.
I'm extremely sorry about Alonso. Starting the 15th, being "cut off" from Schumacher in the first turn after the start, and loading by far the most gasoline than any other car, he came up to the 1st place leaving aside people like Massa or Schumacher himself...he set the pace of the race for 25 turns. He doubled everyone up to the 7th place (including Michael Schumacher), and was on the way to double Barrichello, too, when Kimi had to do his stupid stunt of the month. Sheer brilliance by alonso. This kind of things are like the ones that people like Senna or Mansell did. True legends of this sport. Alonso now ranks with them no matter he wasn't able to finish the race.
Only two facts took victory away from Alonso, neither of them his fault.
-First:
Raikkonen lived to his fame. He's simply worthless, and the way he crashed against Liuzzi is just an instance of a driver who doesn't deserve to be behind a F-1 weel no matter how fast he is.
Safety Car came in at the worse moment possible for Alonso. All the magnificent driving he had done up to that stage was wiped away by the SC. All the time advantage he had achieved, was now gone. And to top it up, Schumacher, who had been doubled and was lagging more and more behind, was able to catch up and win some positions after the SC left and the rain suddenly stopped.
-Second:
There's no way a team like Renault deserve to have a champion like Alonso racing for them. Not only Alonso has to fight for the championship alone (if he expects any help from Fisichella he might as well sit down and light up a cigarette while waiting for it to happen), not only their strategy fails time after time and only the outstanding performances from Alonso save the day...
now it seems their engineers have no clue on even how to change even a friggin' tyre without breaking up some joints in the meantime.
Alonso lost a Grand Prix which , had he won it as he deserved, could've put him among the best driver achievements ever, today, because his team doesn't know how to change a tyre.
Way to go Renault...way to go.
The race was magnific. Schumacher today had an amazing ammount of luck (Not going out when he touched with Fisico after losing control on that turn, entering to change the front of the car more or less when he had to enter boxes anyway to refuel, safety car when it most helped him, rain stopping at the best moment, Renault mechanics...being renault mechanics...and to top it off...Kubika disqualified so he wins one point while he has got no santion for not tracing two chicanes...but we all knows what happens between FIA and Ferrari so no surprise here), but he did a very good race anyway given the circumstances.
De la Rosa magnific, as I said.
And well...at least Button finally won a race. Was about time he had good luck for once!!!!. I'm glad for the chap.
