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Originally Posted by DaveG28
I also think everyone may have missed the point of what they did, although maybe I just read the wrong papers...
Alonso was right on Massa's tail, then dropped back a few seconds out of the slipstream. Sneaker then tells Massa "you can still win this, you need to five it everything now", he and Alonso the ntraded fastest laps till he was told "Fernando is faster".
Do Ferrari have an agreement that when 1-2 the driver who can set the fastest lap gets to win?
Better than just telling people to hold position in my book...
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Naaaa... in my personal opinion Alonso has showed that he does not handle very well to have a team mate that can give him a fight. Remember how desperate he was at McLaren together with Lewis? He did a lot of kamikaze starts there to try and recover...
I think he constantly tries to psyche out Massa. Remember him passing Massa in the pitlane entrance or exit one of the races this year? In this race he's whining "this is ridicilous" on the radio. The object is obviously to pressure the team to order Massa to let him by... And with his points advantage to Massa he of course has some leverage with his team. BUT! It's simply unfair! And his integrity is worthless when he in the previous race states that FIA and McLaren had manipulated the race...
On this track with this year's cars passing clearly wasn't really possible, so that goes for all teams and drivers. Qualification and the start then is where you can do it. And Massa did it best, and deserved to win! It also would have been his 1st win since his near fatal accident 1 year ago.
Even though Massa is far from my favorite driver (he's fast for sure, but he just cannot make a pass nor drive in the wet, and he like Alonso whines like a girl
), he still deserved 100% to win last sunday!
Back to McLaren, I agree that the fuel save request wasn't good either. And chances are slim that Jenson would manage a pass on Lewis. Lewis can pass like nobody else in F1!
Sorry for getting so carried away btw! I just love F1, and this just got me so bloody upset!