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Alonso on top in Hungary, as McLaren fend off Renault

Friday's second practice session at the Hungaroring was an odd one, and because of a late spin by McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton which deposited gravel on the track after Turn Nine, one that never really exploded into life in the closing stages.

With a full 50 minutes to go Fernando Alonso set the fastest time of 1m 20.919s in the other MP4-22, and through circumstance nobody ever did improve on that.
The closest anyone got was Heikki Kovalainen, whose 1m 21.283s best Alonso usurped. Kovalainen was much happier with his Renault R27 than he had been in Germany. Hamilton was right behind him with 1m 21.338s, and it was while trying to improve on that, on the super-soft Bridgestone tyres, that he spun.

Going into Turn Nine with five minutes left, he got slightly short-braked by the tardy Sakon Yamamoto’s Spyker, got into one slide which he caught, and another which he didn’t. The McLaren went into the gravel, and for the second time in a fortnight had to be craned out. This time the Englishman was unable to continue.

The championship leader was far from the only driver to err on a very slippery track. Toro Rosso team mates Sebastian Vettel and Tonio Liuzzi, BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld, Yamamoto, Alonso, Alex Wurz in the Williams, Adrian Sutil in the second Spyker, Renault’s Giancarlo Fisichella, and Ferrari team mates Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa all either ran off the road or spun - some of them more than once.

In the end it was Nico Rosberg who jumped into fourth for Williams with 1m 21.485s, ahead of Heidfeld in the leading BMW on 1m 21.517s; Raikkonen, who lapped in 1m 21.589s and looked set for a faster time until he encountered Red Bull’s David Coulthard on his last lap; Massa on 1m 21.620s before he spun in Turn 14 right at the end; Fisichella on 1m 21.698s; Toyota’s Jarno Trulli on 1m 21.857s; BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica on 1m 21.906s; Ralf Schumacher in the second Toyota on 1m 21.912s and Wurz on 1m 21.987s.

Nobody can say that Formula One racing isn’t close these days.

Mark Webber and Coulthard were 12th and 13th respectively for Red Bull, with laps of 1m 22.325s and 1m 22.483s, closely followed by Anthony Davidson with 1m 22.510s for Super Aguri. Takuma Sato in the second SA07 recorded 1m 22.556s, sandwiched between the two Hondas of 2006 winner Jenson Button (1m 22.510s) and Rubens Barrichello (1m 22.727s).

Liuzzi and Vettel were close together, in 19th and 20th places on 1m 23.136s and 1m 23.148s respectively, which left the Spykers in their usual places. Sutil lapped his in 1m 23.673s, but Yamamoto was well off the pace on 1m 26.307s.

Should be interesting with Hill in the box, always like how ITV have an ex-F1 driver to give race insights. Davidson was good last year, I'm sure Hill will do a fine job.

Massa NOT in Q3

Proof that Alonso isn't, and never will be a worthy champion. Dirty tactics, despite the fact that Alonso can't keep up with a novice.

That was fantastic! I love Alonso, he's not afriad to be a rebel.

Tristan, are you saying that Schumacher is not a worthy champion either? Because Schumacher used to do things far more naughty than that.

Alonso has to play really dirty in order to beat a novice at his first season in F1... says alot about him. I hope he gets sone stern words from the team :banghead:

Wow Alonso what a cheeky b*****d !

:thumbsdow

(3 german drivers in top 6. )

Now the Lewis butt-kissing starts on ITV.

did anyone see how lweis looked at fernando when the reporter asked the inevitable question. The thumb twidling too, LH wanted to do some damage or at least say something in that PC.

I've always hated Alonso, this just proves my opinions just take time , to evolve on others minds!

Indeed hami didnt look too pleased at the press conference, though i guess he had every reason to be annoyed, This season has been excelent so far!

that is just stone cold cheating. If I was Hamilton I would have rammed Alonso out of the box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from TAYLOR-MANIA :

And it's going to be interesting to see what McLaren will say about that.

Miscommunication blah blah illepall

i am sure clownpaint if I was your team mate and did that to you, you wouldn't be so happy!

Quote :

cheat (cht)
v. cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats
v.tr.
1. To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers by overcharging them for purchases.
2. To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.
3. To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye.
4. To elude; escape: cheat death.
v.intr.
1. To act dishonestly; practice fraud.
2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards.
3. Informal To be sexually unfaithful: cheat on a spouse.
n.
1. An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.
2. One who cheats; a swindler.
3. Law Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.
4. Botany An annual European species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in temperate regions.

I think Alonso's behaviour fits those definitions!

If he was faster than Hamilton anyway, why did he do that?

Quote from Clownpaint :

Cheating?

Yes..CHEATING. To call it anything else would be ignorant.

Alonso looses even more points on my respectometer

LH had the fastest time overall however in Q2 or 3, i didn't watch all of qually. Maybe thats why?

Quote from Clownpaint :

LOL! That was brilliant! I haven't seen anything so entertaining in F1 in a decade. This is stuff we haven't seen since the Senna/Prost era.

Yeah I thought of those two, but it also reminded me of the worst of Schumacher's behaviour.

It was a silly thing to do though. Ron was absolutely fuming, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see Alonso have a very slow pit stop tomorrow that puts Hamilton ahead.

Heidfeld did well to take P3. It'll be interesting to see how much fuel he's got in the car though.

Quote from Clownpaint :

That was a message to the team, not to Hamilton. He wasn't arguing with Hamilton in the pit lane on his second stop was he?

This was his way of sticking it to them.

Oh, you can read his mind?

And the "message" to the team cost the team nothing because they still have the double pole. It only cost Hamilton the first place.

Alonso knew he was gonna be in for some in the PC too. He looked to be very flustered wiping his eyes a lot and looking a bit scared tbh. I expect a little bit more than a slow pit stop tomorrow after the way he looked. Or at least he does anyway.

Umm, what actually happened with Alonso/Hamilton?, must have skipped that.. I saw a dirty move by Alonso, closing the faster Kimi behind him, but nothing more..

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Umm, what actually happened with Alonso/Hamilton?

Alonso didn't exit the pit box when the lollipop went up, he remained stationary for about ten seconds, which meant Hamilton (who was queueing behind him) missed the end of qualifying and didn't have time for a final run.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Oh, you can read his mind?

And the "message" to the team cost the team nothing because they still have the double pole. It only cost Hamilton the first place.

at the point of being in the pit lane and blocking Hamilton, Alonso DID NOT KNOW that KIMI may have displaced Hamilton and himself, thus he could HAVE cost Macca a 1-2!!! It was lucky that Kimi was slow!!!!!

It COST them the opportunity to extend their advantage!!! If I ran a team and someone did that to one of my drivers... they would be out..... how can you trust a driver who would do that... who wants to hire a driver that does that.....