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Originally Posted by BenG

He needs to keep cool. I dont see how he could defend the 2005 race at imola and the 2006 championship from Schumacher yet be rattled so easily by Hamilton lol. Its wierd.

cos Schumacher was a multi-world champion, and Hamilton is technically a rookie still. Different kind of pressure, as he is now expected to win, whereas before, if Schumacher beat him, Alonso would've been beaten by the greatest F1 driver of all time (arguably). No shame there

Hamilton keeping up with Alonso, and beating him on occasion too, is probably really pissing Alonso off, especially cos Alonso is now considered to be the class of the field, and expected to win