F1 Fanatic

Perez cost Alonso a lot of points last season in Italy and Canada where he didn’t hesitate to pass him and in Malaysia the idea that Perez deliberately ran wide is so silly that it amazes me that Keith even entertained it on this site. If he was getting messages to “take care of Alonso” it was clearly not a message telling him you’re not allowed to race him and if it was he was obviously ignoring it! As he said himself he made no distinction between Alonso and other cars. It’s more likely if there was pressure on him it was in the sense of “if you take Alonso out of a race with a reckless move it will hurt your chances of a future with Ferrari,” which I reckon is probably pretty common with young drivers with hopes of moving to bigger teams.

Either way it’s interesting that the Perez – Ferrari stories continue to have traction even though he raced Alonso hard at every opportunity, yet when the STRs moved over for Vettel in Brazil there were no complaints.

I think ‘Take care of’ just means don’t crash into him, be a bit careful around him, which is logical considering Alonso was fighting for the WDC. Why wouldn’t Ferrari ask a customer team who is not fighting for the WDC to do this. It doesn’t mean don’t race or don’t attack, just be careful, sounds fair enough to me! Nothing like a good bit of media interpretation and spin to generate interest and rile up those tin foil hat wearing ‘fans’.

Losing 32-14 to the mighty Buemi in qualifying, and not taking a top six finish in 46 races had nothing to do with Jaime losing his seat @todfod ? Alguersuari is the most overrated driver I can remember, with all the excuses used to cover his time and sacking in F1.

As for the main topic, no, Perez wasn’t taking care around Alonso, @mclaren , he was pushing to pass him in Sepang for instance, and made an error in doing so.

No use trying to speculate..this way our skeletons would be bickering with each other till kingdom come, or whatever..

This is not the first time Ferrari have been accused of this, nor will it be the last. As for Perez, I would take whatever he says with a pinch of salt.

Red Bull have been accused of doing so with Toro Rosso, while McLaren and Williams also formed a pact to stop Ferrari and Schumacher in the late ’90s.

Unless something comes out blatantly in the open, there’s no use discussing it. I’m shocked with some of the comments here already, seems that it is bringing out the worst in people.

Let’s just sit back, cool off and enjoy the Formula One season, guys!!

Anyway, this is the translation of what Perez acc. to Google Translate:
“You should ask one by one. In my case it is not, I do not make distinctions between them. Last year, when I was communicating with Ferrari, they often asked me to take care of Alonso, but do not know if they ask whether or not the whole grid. A I do not care if Vettel or Alonso. The only one it would be a little easier if my partner that would give us a great result in a weekend.”

Have a great weeked. Enjoy.

the idea that Perez deliberately ran wide is so silly that it amazes me that Keith even entertained it on this site

I never wrote that. In fact if you read the article again you’ll see I specifically addressed and rejected that suggestion.

@abdurahman A most strong example was Jerez ’97. James Allen wrote about it in his Michael Schumacher biography ‘The Edge Of Greatness’. Schumacher went into the last race 1 point ahead of Villeneuve in the Williams. McLaren and Williams formed a pact which was that the McLarens would make it easy for Villeneuve if, during any point of the race, Villeneuve was behind one of them. That happened when Villeneuve boxed and came out behind Coulthard, who had fuel for several more laps, but pitted the following lap to release Villeneuve. According to Allen, throughout the race, Williams team members were coming and going from the McLaren pits.