«SI NO GANA Y NO PELEA EL
TITULO, APUESTO A QUE NO
TERMINA EL CAMPEONATO»
El rendimiento de Michael Schumacher en su retorno a la Fórmula 1, no satisface como se esperaba a inicios de la temporada, luego de la conmoción generada por su regreso tras tres años de ausencia. En Malasia abandonó y además se enojó.
David Coulthard puede hablar con propiedad sobre Schumi; el escocés retirado de la F-1, actual comentarista y cerca de regresar a la competiciòn (lo hará en el DTM con un Mercedes), fue preciso cuando se refirió a Schumacher: «no ganar, no subir al podio y si no pelea el título, perderá estímulos. Lo conozco bien y apostaría a que no terminará el actual Mundial de F-1». Por otro lado, el interés por volver a ver a Schumacher ha decaído, de los 10 millones de telespectadores que lo siguieron en el GP de Bahrein, el número bajo a 3,6 millones en Australia.
6-4-2010
this in so many words Lewis Hamilton was unquestionably the nuebmr 1 driver. They were in the lucky position that the gulf in talent between Kovalainen and Hamilton was such that they almost never had to do anything to ensure that nuebmr 1 was ahead of nuebmr 2 he usually was anyway. The fact that the Hockenheim incident was caused by a strategy gaffe underlines that. So at McLaren there was a clear pecking order, dictated as much by natural talent as politics.There is also the matter that Hamilton was fighting at the very sharp end of the Championship, while Kovalainen was not in the running at all.The situation with Ferrari is slightly different. Up until yesterday, as far as I’m aware, there was no nuebmr 1 Ferrari driver. You might expect Alonso to become a nuebmr 1 by default, but there has been no indication so far. For instance, Massa’s car nuebmr is 7 and Alonso’s is 8, suggesting that, on paper, Massa is the nuebmr 1, albeit not necessarily in practice.The gulf between Alonso and Massa is not as large either, and while Massa was quite far behind Alonso in the Championship, Alonso was much further behind still than the Championship leaders. This makes it less of clear-cut situation than with Hamilton.Then and here is perhaps the crucial point for me there is the fact that Ferrari allowed them to race earlier on in the race. We know it says on the back of the ticket that motorsport is dangerous. We saw a stark reminder only a couple of races ago when Webber flew through the air just how dangerous racing can be.At Hockenheim, both Ferrari drivers took risks as they raced each other. One of them could have made a mistake that caused a big crash. But if Ferrari’s secret gameplan all along was to let Alonso ahead anyway, this was essentially endangering the lives of the drivers for nothing. Yes, drivers sign up to motor racing knowing the dangers. But that is when they know that the only way to pass is to race wheel-to-wheel. Otherwise, they don’t take unnecessary risks. But Alonso and Massa were genuinely racing. Not only did this cheat the drivers, but it cheated the fans too, because it meant that what was saw earlier was effectively a fake racing situation. We didn’t know it at the time, but it all counted for nothing. That is what I think caused the big stink. If Massa just let Alonso by during or after the first phase of pitstops, no-one would be complaining about team orders.The issue is that Ferrari tried to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. They tried to treat the fans as though they are idiots, which is why everyone is offended.What McLaren did may have been team orders still, but they went about it in a more honest way. Everyone knew that Kovalainen would let Hamilton through, and he did. Of course Ron Dennis would deny team orders but that is just because of the rule banning it. Otherwise, it was quite a transparent situation.What Ferrari did was a completely botched cover-up. We were made to believe that Massa and Alonso were genuinely racing each other, but it transpired to be all for nothing.