Webber: Alonso deserved to win
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- 29th July 2010, 20:18 at 8:18 pm #127906KevinCParticipant
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/85638
Hypocritical, really, with all he has been saying about wanting a ‘fair and equal shot at the championship’.
29th July 2010, 20:31 at 8:31 pm #142879Steph90MemberIt does sound hyprocritcal on the face of it but “Obviously they had a decision in the team where the fastest guy in the team wins the race.”
Fernando = fastest and therefore deserves it with that arrangement.
29th July 2010, 22:02 at 10:02 pm #142880David-AParticipantHypocritical on the face of it from Mark. And every other body part of it in my opinion.
I’m just hoping Alonso can shrug off this furore with a better win this weekend.
29th July 2010, 22:03 at 10:03 pm #142881KatyParticipantSounds very hypocritical. In fact it makes him look a bit silly really. He’s assuming they have an understanding where the faster guy is allowed to win, but they’re not saying that. If he thinks that kind of thing is a good idea why didn’t he move out of Seb’s way in Turkey?
29th July 2010, 22:11 at 10:11 pm #142882SoLiDGParticipantHe makes sense imo. I can understand why Ferrari did it aswell, but I don’t like it!
29th July 2010, 22:19 at 10:19 pm #142883KatyParticipantI hope Alonso retires in the next race and Massa wins, then Ferrari’s decision will look stupid and show that it wasn’t right.
29th July 2010, 22:28 at 10:28 pm #142884US_PeterParticipantTotal hypocrite.
30th July 2010, 7:57 at 7:57 am #142885Steph90MemberJust my opinion here which may have came from me being bored of having a go at what happened :P
In RBR Horner has said lots of times that they are allowed to race and it isn’t about who is the fastest. It isn’t about whether he thinks it is a good idea just what he thinks the situation is at Ferrari.
He’s making a assumption (maybe Flav or Alo said something or he’s just barking up the wrong tree) that the Ferrari arrangement is different and within that arrangement it meant Alo should be the winner. I don’t think his words were wise but I can see what he means.
Actually, to be honest Katy, a dnf can easily happen through anything so it would mean much more to me if Massa thoroughly outpace Alonso.
30th July 2010, 9:39 at 9:39 am #142886Dan ThornParticipantThis is why I like drivers like Webber and Alonso – they say what they want, not what they think other people want to hear.
30th July 2010, 9:45 at 9:45 am #142887KatyParticipantMy point was more that there’s a lot left of the year and anything can happen, so it was wrong to make a call like this with so many races left.
30th July 2010, 12:39 at 12:39 pm #142888Ads21ParticipantI think the priciple of the call was that Ferrari have an agreement post Australia that if one driver is clearly quicker they are allowed past. The way to test it is doing what Alonso did, drop back to 3 seconds but then charge back to under a second behind and getting in the dirty air to prove he was faster. It was explained by Allen and implied by Webber and seems like quite a reasonable arrangement really
31st July 2010, 5:12 at 5:12 am #142889JourneyerParticipantWAS he clearly quicker, though? I don’t think so. Massa was able to match his pace. He was trading FLaps with him.
Thing is, Katy, I think Ferrari are worried that they’d end up supporting someone too late in the season. They want to make the decision now while the championship is still in their hands.
Ads21, in the words of Murray Walker, catching is one thing, passing quite another.
31st July 2010, 9:27 at 9:27 am #142890Dan ThornParticipantBut if Alonso WAS deliberately dropping back and catching up to prove his pace as per a pre race agreement, then he must have been very confident of his pace. To my recollection he dropped back and caught up three times – though one of the time losses was a small error.
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