> Alonso's days at McLaren are numbered

you can't win a constructors championship if your driver doesn't score points.

Originally Posted by Nikhil

He has no right to ask for preferential treatment. He knows he isnt going to get it. I dont think that was ever a part of the deal with McLaren.

Actually on second thoughts, I dont think I'll be posting anymore in this thread...you are totally missing the point.

Dennis had said Hamilton was to blame for failing to obey repeated team instructions to let Alonso go past earlier in the session at a stage when drivers were burning off excess fuel.

"They were out of sequence because Lewis should have slowed and let Fernando past and he didn't. He charged off," said Dennis.

Originally Posted by Safin

@Apex am not going into a Kimi discussion. Kimi never has been able to make the best of his chances. Bad luck follows him and thats as much due to his own aggressiveness (a fault btw of our own Narain too,,remember his aggressive driving on the jordan, you can't blame the car if you push it and you know it can't take it,)(why i used the word, remember that last lap when his tyres had gone bald and he was flying and in the end got out with a burst tyre on the last lap. He could have actually slowed down and instead taken 3rd rather than 1st. He is as much at fault than his team, whether it was mclaren or Ferrari.)

Your comparing of Kimi with Narain is plain ridiculous and says it all. So, I'm not even going to comment on that one. About that suspension failure, it was a team decision to carry on with the vibration. The only other option left was to pit and surrender all available points. You can't drive an F1 car slowly and calculate a third place finish. A difference of 30 or 40 secs. may seem longer during a race but in practical sense, u know how much time that is. You slow down one bit, you'll get pounced by the opposition. So, I conclude your statements were baseless.

McLarens failed coz they were unreliable and you can't blame Kimi for that. Its not that he crashed those Mclarens every time. If a driver can break a car without bangin it on to a wall, it says a lot about the car. If you're not allowed to push a McLaren to its limit, then god save those poor teams.

The Spanish newspaper Diario As, meanwhile, now claims that 26-year-old Alonso has already decided to leave McLaren in order to re-join Renault or switch to BMW.

He is "even considering the possibility of finishing this world championship with another team", 'As' added, even if it means sacrificing the 2007 title.

"His situation at McLaren is untenable," the newspaper - also raising the possibility of an internal anti-Alonso 'saboteur' - continued.

The Times newspaper in London is reporting that "well-placed sources" say that Ron Dennis has informed Fernando Alonso that he can leave the team at the end of the year if he wants to do that. This does not seem very likely.

The newspaper quotes the unidentified source saying that "my understanding is that he’s been told he can go because they’re so fed up with him."

There have been suspicions for some time that Alonso was not comfortable in the team and believes that it favours Lewis Hamilton. Ron Dennis has been trying hard to make Alonso feel at home and it may be this that cause some of the problems in Hungary at the weekend.

Having said that, not being happy with a driver and letting him go are two very different things. In this case McLaren would not only lose a double World Champion but would also be handing him to a rival. Dennis cannot make Alonso drive for him in 2008, if the Spaniard does not want to drive, but he can stop him driving for another team.

"We have two drivers who are contracted for several years into the future," Dennis said. "We will respect our part of the bargain - we hope that the drivers respect theirs, because that’s what a contract is about. We will continue to function as a Grand Prix team with specific values and if anybody does not want to be part of those values - irrespective of where they sit in the organisation - ultimately they will have a choice. But we will not deviate away from our values."

Renault would love to get Alonso back and BMW would almost certainly be bidding as well. These would likely be the only choices that Alonso would consider as Ferrari with Kimi Raikkonen is not a very attractive option and it is unlikely that Jean Todt is going to axe Felipe Massa, who is managed by Nicolas Todt, Jean's son.
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Originally Posted by Safin

I will break the no posting rule once.
Comparing Narain with Kimi is justified for the reason given. If you can't know your own cars limitations, it says a lot about you as a driver. Yeah right, actually you do make our own luck. Thats why i say he is a totally unlucky guy and he can fault himself.
You have forgotten the race am talking about. I think no finish is not better than a 3rd finish. and 30secs btw would have meant a 3rd finish. And thats just one race. Its a a whole history with Kimi and am watching him for as long as you have been.

yeah and i never said they were reliable also. A idiot driver on a wheel of a less reliable car who doesn't know his limitations is a lethal combo as Mclaren found out.


Btw You are blinded by Kimi. I think coulple of races back you were cursing him yourself for his bad luck.. rofl. Thank god its ferrari now and not Mclaren