Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The Wolf was coming
Alonso has recently talked of his feelings during this year's championship, evocatively comparing Ferrari and Michael Schumacher to a wolf hunting him down. In the end, he said, the good guys won. Now, I think Alonso is a pretty great driver, but I do have a few problems with him. One of them is this righteous attitude he seems to have. It came out over the mass-damper affair, and especially after his penalty in Monza. In truth, I found it a little annoying, his under-dog, martyr-like, stance. He seemed to be whining a bit much for a Grand Prix driver. This is especially so when you look at the facts: all those incidents did was to level the playing field. Michael never went ahead on the points table. Ferrari were never given the lead in any way, all that happened was Alonso's was cut. Then, the only reason Alonso won was due to Ferrari's failures in the last two races. To say that Renault 'deserved' to win is really quite silly. Still, when you think about it, Alonso's only 25...
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Yes he's very young. I think that is exactly it. In this case he's also being overly influenced by his elders to boot.
Flav is full of righteously indignant about everything to do with Michael and Ferrari for three reasons.
1) He sees Michael as a traitor
2) Ferrari have more money than him
and
3) He still wants to be head of Ferrari rather than a French team. In his mind he can't understand why somewhere along the line a French man was allowed to run Ferrari without spotting the irony that he's an Italian running a French team.
And he must go on about all of these things a lot. And I think Alonso has picked up a lot of that. And I don't think any of that will be knocked out of him by Ron who hates Ferrari about as much as Flav does. The only thing that might change it is the number of changes over at Ferrari.
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Flav is full of righteously indignant about everything to do with Michael and Ferrari for three reasons.
1) He sees Michael as a traitor
2) Ferrari have more money than him
and
3) He still wants to be head of Ferrari rather than a French team. In his mind he can't understand why somewhere along the line a French man was allowed to run Ferrari without spotting the irony that he's an Italian running a French team.
And he must go on about all of these things a lot. And I think Alonso has picked up a lot of that. And I don't think any of that will be knocked out of him by Ron who hates Ferrari about as much as Flav does. The only thing that might change it is the number of changes over at Ferrari.
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