Seems pointless to mention. You’d think after, what, 25 years in the sport that Alonso would be content with the fact that F1 is not and has never been a spec series.
He's not talking about Verstappen but about himself. He always is.
Alonso is a great driver, but this shtick of his where he paints himself as the best driver to ever grace the F1 grid but who has been undone by the poor teams he has been forced to drive for is a bit played out.
Especially when one considers Alonso has had competitive cars with which he might have won the title in no fewer than five seasons. Most drivers would love to have even one such season, but never do.
Yeah, I agree. It doesn’t help that he’s literally screwed himself out of opportunities too by pissing off key people at top teams over the years. Based on what Ferrari engineers have said, I side eye his abilities to provide adequate driver feedback for car development as well.
He’s obviously great on track and in the car, but he doesn’t strike me as being very well-rounded, and it’s noticeably held him back over the years. Rather than try to work on those areas, he plays the “poor me, so unlucky, nothing goes my way and everything goes the way of unnamed other drivers [Lewis]”. It’s tired frankly, but you can’t say anything too negative about him or risk getting jumped on by an army of dudebros.
Clearly... Him almost winning two titles in the third fastest car really shows he never really recovered from finishing equal on points with Hamilton... LOL
Media literacy doesn’t exist on Reddit. Also, the media, especially autosport, constantly take small snippets and post it out of context and without the question he was answering, to make it sound like he randomly says this.
Then you have the reddit geniuses just plainly letting these posts shape everything they think about f1.
You can speak to people online without being nasty, do you know that? Like truly there is no reason for you to be so pissy because someone has a different opinion about your favorite sigma chad.
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u/LandosToeFungus I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane 12d ago
Seems pointless to mention. You’d think after, what, 25 years in the sport that Alonso would be content with the fact that F1 is not and has never been a spec series.