Beautiful Grid

As an American, I'm supposed to always (and do) root for Ferrari, since I don't know any better. And while I'm sad that Kimi's car shat the bed, I must say this is a beautiful grid! In the top ten slots there are 7 different teams! That's friggin' awesome! I'm so happy to see Heikki The Huge Head off to a good start in a car worth driving. At the same time I'm happy to see Alonso nowhere in the top ten.

While I think Fernie is a great driver and a worthy two time World Champion, I've got to say he's a stupid son of a bitch... or a racist. One or the other. While Ron Dennis may or may not be an asshole and Lewis Hamilton may or may not be black (almost said African-American right there!) we all know McLaren produce good cars. And they have for quite some time. The reason Kimi did not win in a McLaren is that I think he has the propensity to beat the shit out of his cars. I think he drives them really hard and utilized all the driver aids. In comparison to his time at McLaren, Kimi's team mates had next to no trouble with their cars. Anyhow, point is, last year Fernie was the best driver in the best team and had a new guy who was pretty froggin' good too. Alonso got mad cos everybody at McLaren wasn't giving him a rim-job on a daily basis, and that's just silly. Last I checked in a sport such as this it is a good thing to have a team mate that can challenge you. It only makes you stronger, whether you win or lose, since all you want to do is beat that other fucker. Apparently Alonso got used to having a Turdsy Fisichella and Jarno Truli racing along side him because as soon as black boy wonder Hamilton started impressing the world Fernie started acting the bitch and complaining. Why not just drive harder. Don't ask the team to give the other guy inferior equipment. I'm sure he could have driven harder and kept his yap shut. I mean he beat Schumi for two years running, and that guy had his shit together. So what does Alonso do? He jumps ship cos by the end of the year everybody hated everybody else at that team and they were willing to be rid of his monkey ass. While Fernie should have just quietly hated on Hamilton and drove his Spanish nuts off, he went back to Renault who have been off form since he left them. Maybe it was a bad year for Renault? Maybe it was due to the fact that they were demoralized that Fernie left in the first place. I mean he gave them a year warning, after his last championship car was already built. So maybe they slagged off for the 2007 car. I don't know. What I do know is that I'm glad "Shitty Alonso" aka Heikki Kovalainen got yet another vacant Alonso seat because Fernie deserves to be relegated to that under performing Renault. While I feel and hope that Alonso is going to pull off some sweet drives this year I hope today made him step back and wonder for a moment if he left that half second that he purportedly brought to McLaren, at McLaren...

With that said, I'm really enthused about this upcoming season. While I am of the school of thought that felt F1 is all about being the pinnacle of motorsport, therefore having the most cutting edge cars, I'm also very happy many of the driver aids are gone. I look at it this way, F1 introduced all those aids to motor sport. They ran with many of them for quite a number of years, and now it's time to give the cars back to the drivers for a bit and start coming up with a whole new batch of totally off the wall shit to incorporate into those cars that in 10 years will be banned by the FIA. It is so beautiful to see cars sliding about on the circuit and odd grids such as this one. It all just makes me smile.

This season is going to be even better than the last one because there isn't going to be a whiny Alonso, he is going to have to prove himself on the track, there won't be any Spygates, no longer is there Traction Control, and Lewis Hamilton is pissed off and likes the taste of blood!!

Renault not guilty?!

So I just read that Renault are not guilty of the same breach of rules that cost McLaren their constructors championship and $100 million dollars! How is that possible? It even looked like Renault were a bit more guilty than McLaren due to the fact that it seems more people saw the McLaren documents at Renault than McLaren people did of the Ferrari drawings at McLaren. So I must say that I'm quite baffled.

Were Renault cleared of any massive fines because they were purportedly more forthright with the FIA when they supposedly first found out they had McLaren information? Or was it because if Renault were heavily penalized that they may just choose to leave the sport and Fernie Alonso would have no place to race and this would be seen as a massive victory for McLaren who want to win something this year?

I honestly don't know, however I look forward to the FIA's explanation whenever it comes out and hopefully maybe they will revoke McLaren's fine or something, considering Renault was not punished at all, not even posthumously stripped of their 2007 constructor's points, which was what I figured was going to happen.

We will see. Yes. We will see.

Where does The Fern go?

So it is now fact that Alonso will not be racing at McLaren next year, but where will he go? What will the implications of his release be? Will he be allowed to go back to Renault or one of the mid-pack teams like Toyota or Red Bull that could afford his services on a monetary basis? I don't know. It would be interesting to see him back at Renault, though I'd be disappointed if Turdsy Fisichella is Fernie's team mate. I like Fisi, but he's had his time in F1 and done a whole lot of naught with it. Meanwhile, Heikki is still young and getting better, yet he wouldn't pose any threat to Alonso. Not that Fisi will of course, I'm just sick of him not being very competitive and still managing to hang around F1. Then again, Turdsy could be given the sack and Piquet could get the other Renault seat and from what I'm reading it is Kovalainen that would be shuffled elsewhere, which would greatly piss me off. Farm out Piquet, that 's what I say! I don't trust Nelson Junior. He's got a chip on his shoulder and after sitting out last season as a tester, I bet he feel's he has really got something to prove and would end up giving Alonso a tough time in the way Hamilton did at McLaren, even though it would probably be less vicious, Fern would probably still be perturbed. Not that I'm against team mates fighting each other, but we know Alonso likes to piss and moan about it and to be quite honest, I'm fucking sick of hearing this type of bellyaching!

There is always the possibility that Alonso could go to Williams, as they do have a vacant seat. While I seriously doubt they'll be challenging for any type of championship next year, Williams are a good team.

So in the end, I'm curious. Where Alonso goes and who get's screwed as a result of his goings.

I also like how Alonso decided in the end (whether he was forced to say this or not) that he was in fact treated fairly at the team so far as equal equipment being provided. I mean, statistically it looks as if this was the truth, considering Hamilton and Alonso ended with equal points and all.

While I, as well as all of the rest of the F1 watching world, have seen Alonso's departure looming for quite some time, I have to wonder if he is going to go down like Emerson Fittipaldi? It's kinda weird when you look at it. Emo was the youngest champ until Alonso came along. Fittipaldi won a championship in a Lotus and McLaren, then moved to his brother's team and nothing ever happened again with him. While Fernie didn't win a championship in a McLaren, there he is, and leaving after a short time there. Where's he gonna go? Will he ever win another championship? I say yes, but wouldn't it be funny if he didn't?

BMW-Sauber would be a nice place for Alonso to land. Like Fisi, I'm tired of Nick Heidfeld, even though he's bringing the beard back to F1, there's no fun in that on the race track!

If anything, it will be an interesting road to where Alonso ends up next and I look forward to it all.

Lastly, if McLaren win the driver's title on an appeal, I will probably stop watching Formula 1, though I strongly doubt this will happen considering Max Mosley doesn't think much of Ron Dennis, his team, or that little fuzzy top driving for him.