Comments on: Hungarian GP 2007 qualifying: Alonso’s tainted triumph

By: Dan M

Dan M — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:36:05 +0000

Ive finally got my girlfriend interested in F1. She loves soap operas.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:08:45 +0000

Respect to Clive, then, for being the only one to have faith in Alonso!!

By: sam

sam — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:10:51 +0000

can we wait for a final judgment before throwing Alonso to the wolves? I suspect a lot of this Alonso-bashing is because of the popularity of Lewis Hamilton.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:58:55 +0000

This is what I think.

First of all a lot or controversial about extra lap in qualifying has taken place between both drivers, as I’ve read in lots of blogs. Alonso feels he hasn’t been on equal conditions since Silverstone, when he had to use the extra lap and McLaren said that because of the gear failure in France it was again for Hamilton.
Next, what about the long minute and a half he has been stopped by the team in Alonso’s first stop? And next came the reaction of undoubtely stopping Hamilton.
This is my theory: Alonso had the extra lap turn but with soft tyres he was beeing slower than Hamilton. So the team thinks ok, let’s play Hamilton’s card, so they stop Alonso in his first pitstop so the extra lap of Alonso wouldn’t be useful. Alonso is in pit near 1:30 minute, and traffic is no excuse as in TV you can see BMW pilot entering the pits, changing tyres and returning to track while Alonso is stopped. Then Alonso comes out, makes his lap and enter again for new tyres, and surprise, Hamilton is behind. So he feels it’s time for vengeance. And the rest was seen for us all.
Alonso wasn’t too much legal, but what about his team? Finally he did his fast lap in equal conditions as Hamilton….. and he was faster….

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:31:29 +0000

Alonso under investigation.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:26:25 +0000

Sorry, when I said Hamilton would have done the same I meant get pole, not hamper Alonso.

By: milos

milos — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:02:35 +0000

The reaction of Dennis right after the end of quali was self explanatory… Both his guys on front row and the first thing he does is to go and grab Alonso’s trainer with that angry look on his face …

Macaluso, Max, Briatore, now Alonso camp – bad days for Ron …

By: Clive

Clive — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:48:44 +0000

Alonso is saying it was the team – Hamilton is apparently mystified but faintly amused. Guess who has suddenly gone up several hundred miles in my estimation.

By: Ben Goldberg

Ben Goldberg — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:48:23 +0000

Hamilton definitely wouldn’t have done the same, no no no. Even if he wanted to, he’s a rookie and he would never do that.

Also, I don’t think it’s that clever. I could come up with 10 different ways to unfairly get an advantage if I was Alonso. It was probably also premeditated.

By: Haas

Haas — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:44:55 +0000

@Clive: Lol, thats the best explanation ever!

@Captain: I absolutely agree, its possibly extremely hard to time the exit of the pits, the outlap and possible traffic to let Alonso thru and keep Lewis behind from inside a cock pit!

The Schumacher incident was more straight forward to execute… Frankly Alonso must be a math genius to time it inch perfect(there was like a 5-10s gap once both came out of the pits) to do it alone!