Alonso - the least talented world champion for over 30 years! (with, perhaps, the odd exception, like Jacques)

You are delusional if you don't think that Damon Hill wins least talented world champ by a country mile.

Alonso is not even in the running.

Okay okay. I'll make it a better statement.

Alonso - the worst double world champion ever!

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You are delusional if you don't think that Damon Hill wins least talented world champ by a country mile.

Alonso is not even in the running.

*cough cough*

Eddie irvine!

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Eddie irvine!

Haha! Word

Nah, part of F1 is to be in the right team at the right time. Alonso sure knows how to do it

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*cough cough*

Eddie irvine!

Irvine never won an F1 championship.

yeah my bad, he fiinished 2nd, still he was crap

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Okay okay. I'll make it a better statement.

Alonso - the worst double world champion ever!

Hmm... you are making it a bit tougher as there aren't too many drivers to have won two championships!

Still, I think it's probably Graham Hill that takes the title of "worst double champion"... or perhaps Emerson Fittipaldi.

All F1 double world champs are very good, however, so I suppose you could make a decent argument for Alonso or Mika Hakkinen as well.

MMmmmm let me think it's got to be HUNT the Shunt (James Hunt) he did'nt pick that tag up for no reason

Infact he was my first boyhood hero, I always remember him 4 wheel drifting around curcuits ...... Brilliant

Ah, but Hunt was a proper GP driver; all booze and fags and fast women. F1 would be a lot more interesting if we still had drivers like him around.

That was the dullest Formula One Grand Prix I have watched in years. At least Indianapolis had intrigue, and Hungary once had an overtaking move. Spain never ceases to disapoint me despite my low expectations of it, and this GP was the worst Spanish GP I can remember.

I can't believe I had to wait a month for it.

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I keep hearing how cars suddenly go from crap to good in the same stint etc

If you need evidence that driver skill is still a factor in F1 then look at Renault. That's a smashing car, but it's currently in the midfield for no other reason than it's being driven by two drivers who, frankly, should stick to taxi work if they want to be professional drivers.

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That was the dullest Formula One Grand Prix I have watched in years.

i totally agree, for the 1st time in watching F1 i got bored!!!!!

with regards to hamilton, i think that he has made a great enterance to the F1 scene, and i wish him all the best!

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If you need evidence that driver skill is still a factor in F1 then look at Renault. That's a smashing car, but it's currently in the midfield for no other reason than it's being driven by two drivers who, frankly, should stick to taxi work if they want to be professional drivers.

I can't say he's performing well in F1, but calling Kovalainen a bad driver is a bit over the top. His performance in the race of champions for example was absolutely stunning. Beating Sebastien Loeb in a Citroen WRX car he had never even seen the inside of? I don't think any rally drivers even came close to doing that.

I think it's fairly clear that he does have potential, but for some reason he's just not handling things as well as he could. Maybe he'll shape up and learn to deal with the pressure and media attention later in the season. In the case that he does not; he doesn't have what it takes to be a formula 1 driver, and then I'll kick him off the pedestal I currently still have him on :>

you cant look at last years renault and automaticly assume its going to be good this year different rules different different specs

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you cant look at last years renault and automaticly assume its going to be good this year different rules different different specs

And towards the end of last season it seemed they'd already lost quite a bit of ground to Ferrari in development terms. We've seen teams like McLaren and Williams go from front-running competitiveness to barely-able-to-win-races over the winter before now, so Renault's dip in form doesn't seem that anomalous to me.

thought they lost alot of pace because of the force damper thing that got banned? is that right?

Fissichella results are only a little off what he was doing at the end of last season when Alonso was still at the sharp end. The Renault may not be quite as fast as last year, but I think plenty of other F1 drivers could get it nearer the front than the pairing in there now. I think it could compete with the BMW.

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Why are we still banging on about Schumacher? Are we saying Hamilton can't be considered a great driver until he makes a couple of attempts at knocking his championship rivals off the road in season finales? Or until he tries to secure pole in Monaco by parking his car at Rascasse?

Good riddance to the cheating ****.

just to stir it up even more............thisnameistaken, you have just become my favourite LFS user!

EDIT: wrong thread, some numpty posted here and moved it above the monaco one DOH!