Fernando admitted his remarks were fuelled by frustration

[icegirljenni]

Alonso apologises for FIA criticism

Quote:Two days on, Alonso has said he is much calmer about the situation - and clarified that his remarks were fuelled by frustration that he had lost positions by respecting the rules, while Hamilton had effectively benefited from breaking the regulations.

"Obviously, in the clear light of day, I am much calmer than I was in the moments immediately following the race," said Alonso in his diary column on the official Ferrari website.

"At the time, I reacted emotionally and in that situation, it is all too easy to adopt a tone and say things that can be interpreted wrongly, giving rise to suspicions, something which I had no intention of doing.

“Sure, I understand that the stewards have a difficult job to do and they have to take decisions that are not easy. What I meant was that those drivers who, like us, respected the regulations, unfortunately, in this situation, suffered much more than those who broke them, even though they were given a penalty.

“And I am not referring to any of the drivers in particular: it’s a general matter and I think we should talk about it together in a calm way, to ensure that things like this do not happen again."

Fernando just prove to me that he is unable to control his anger over situation like this . Why did he apologize over something that he himself for once think is right? If he think the race is manipulated, then so be it. That means what he said about manipulated was plain out of anger? i do really think it is manipulated.... I know many many of you all do think the same isnt it? I always admire his calm character during the years where he has to face the cunning cheating Ferrari. I think Fernando has started to losing himself by putting too much pressure on his own I think Ferrari were asking him to apologized to avoid an unnecessary action from FIA. We all know that Manipulating did happen isnt it? I know i have no right to question his personality / character change like Chrissie spoke earlier. But i just feel like i agree with what he said earlier, i just dont want to accept that he does spoke out of frustration though.

[WiTcH]

Oh and I just saw an article about that too and came to post it. You found it earlier. Well, Fernando tried to play down the comments he made after the race... No jenni. He just said that cause he must have talked with Ferrari and told him to keep a low profile. Cause I read that there was a possibility FIA punishing them for the comments he made. So, I think it's still what he thinks, just Ferrari ordered him to slow down...Politics...

[VoRteX]

Fernando lowered the tone of his words but didn't nearly apologize for saying what he said.
Also some of the declarations were written by the press office, not Fernando himself, and that showsl.
Don't believe everything you read. F1 has a lot of manipulation in and outside the races -_-"
Anyway, he is not going to waste energy fighting the media. Already focused on the next race.

I also read Lewis making very classy comments on the matter. Unbelievably childish, and still gets published and applauded. Amazing.

Is Lewis ever going to get a penalty for sistematically pissing on the rules???
Are his fans ever going to see that cheating and lying are no good values for any sportsman???

...

[Ginger]

There was an interesting poll on James Allen's site, posing this question:-
Are Ferrari and Alonso right to say that the management of the safety car was a scandal?

The majority result was that most people felt that it was right.These are not solely Alonso supporters so the current vote seems to show that our man is not alone in finding the incident with the safety car at Valencia to be, at best, a cock-up! I believe the FIA is going to look into it now (could be wrong on that, maybe someone else is better informed) with a view to clarification. Too late to help other drivers though, especially those fighting for the championship.

As everybody knows, LH's pole position in Canada was achieved by the dodgy interpretation of the 'memo' concerning the fuel issue on completing the qualification laps and returning to the garage under your own steam.
This was amended after the race. Too late to help other drivers though, especially those fighting......etc..etc.

There was also the Michael Schumacher incident in Monaco in jumping Fernando at the end. Again, the rules seemed not to have been understood.

What other sport displays so much ignorance of its own rules?

Fernando may not be entirely correct in saying that it was manipulation i.e. deliberate or planned, but the end result for those fighting for the championship could be a manipulated result through ignorance and/or chaotic application of the rules.

[icegirljenni]

(07-01-2010 09:17 PM)Ginger Wrote:  There was also the Michael Schumacher incident in Monaco in jumping Fernando at the end. Again, the rules seemed not to have been understood.

He get a penalty of 25 sec, Fernando got his position back, despite all the evidence show they are allow to pass, FIA still penalized him.
Fernando also did a jump start in China, he got a drive through penalty.

I think rules is not mean to be follow, it just merely a compulsory "things" you must have.

[Ginger]

(07-02-2010 07:25 AM)icegirljenni Wrote:  

(07-01-2010 09:17 PM)Ginger Wrote:  There was also the Michael Schumacher incident in Monaco in jumping Fernando at the end. Again, the rules seemed not to have been understood.

He get a penalty of 25 sec, Fernando got his position back, despite all the evidence show they are allow to pass, FIA still penalized him.
Fernando also did a jump start in China, he got a drive through penalty.

I think rules is not mean to be follow, it just merely a compulsory "things" you must have.

Sorry, I think I didn't make myself clear over the MS/ FA incident at Monaco. I wasn't complaining that the 'rule' ( whatever it was ) wasn't applied , but that the information to the drivers was different: Fernando asked if he could attempt to jump Hamilton. He was told "no" so he basically switched off. Michael asked his team if he could jump Fernando , he was told "yes", so he did. it was neither of the driver's faults in this incident, just different interpretations/ understandings of the same rule by different teams!:

I do like the idea that rules are not there to be followed, just a book that all sports must have to prove they're a sport! That would explain a lot!

[alonso 4ever]

well, i was not that happy when fernando said that the race was manipulated coz i knew he'll apologize later (but we all know that what he said was 100% true!)

as witch said that is all politics....

he's putting alot of pressure over his head..
that was very clear when he asked about ham's position in the race and they just asked him to be calm...

he just have to concentrate on the next race which will be very important for him..

so sad things getting like this in F1...

[icegirljenni]

(07-02-2010 12:13 PM)Ginger Wrote:  Sorry, I think I didn't make myself clear over the MS/ FA incident at Monaco. I wasn't complaining that the 'rule' ( whatever it was ) wasn't applied , but that the information to the drivers was different: Fernando asked if he could attempt to jump Hamilton. He was told "no" so he basically switched off. Michael asked his team if he could jump Fernando , he was told "yes", so he did. it was neither of the driver's faults in this incident, just different interpretations/ understandings of the same rule by different teams!:

I do like the idea that rules are not there to be followed, just a book that all sports must have to prove they're a sport! That would explain a lot!

Oh sorry, maybe i didnt pick up what you were explaining.

[Tension_36th]

The perils of joining a garbage team like Ferrari. You are not allowed to have an honest opinion of what you think clearly happened. At Renault he wasn't asked to retract what he said when he claimed its not a sport anymore.

FIA twisted Ferrari's arms and Ferrari forces Alonso to change his words. Pathetic.

The worst part is Alonso bends over for a team for the first time.

[GQgirl]

I have all the respect for Alonso

I think he has great intuition and IQ,
picking up what is evidently how ill-principled drivers are going about the game

now to have learnt that F1 rules can all just be made a farce by some joker none other than Hammy the black piece of Pork, as well that good ol' Schumacher

to express what is heart-felt, then to shoo off any reprimand w. some variation of phrases...

Piece of cake, good job, Alonso.


* Now we get the fair view of how he feels and how balances it all out among troubled people,

and personally, I wd recommend all media and all audience to just depend on Alonso's blog and interviews as true and reflecting the truth.

Alonso really knows how to get the word out. Intuitively, but surely!


I cant be more proud of him.

[ashyxt]

when will fernando's bad luck end

[Chrissie]

Not anytime soon by the looks of it.....I think I've come to accept the fact that he's never going to get that third world title


I don't know what he did in his past life, but it must have been pretty bad to get the kind of shit that's happening to him now

[icegirljenni]

I didnt see this as bad luck at all, i mean well couple of races there are back luck happen, but it was the car which was not being classified as a champ car, so the real opportunity is not there. RBR has the champ car, but they are suck in their own problem. That cant help, Mclaren just developing, nothing to be call as up to the standard yet. I think when the car are getting better, it will not be hard for Fernando clinch the next title, remember this is just his first year, who knows he might can do it next year? despite he himself putting on too much pressure for him about winning with Ferrari this season, it seem like fans also quite eagerly to see him winning too Is alright, this is only first year. He has longer contract you know. We are talking about Ferrari, money is there, top engineers is there, so whats there to worry.

[Chrissie]

Yeah, I know it's not all down to luck and he's made some stupid mistakes, Ferrari have made some stupid mistakes....but I'm pretty convinced he's just jinxed....I believe someone in Macca put some curse on him when he left coz his career has been steadly going downhill since he left - I thought the worst of it was over once he had left Renault but apparently I was quite wrong


No point having false hope coz he just ain't going to win anymore

[WiTcH]

(07-11-2010 09:31 PM)Chrissie Wrote:  Yeah, I know it's not all down to luck and he's made some stupid mistakes, Ferrari have made some stupid mistakes....but I'm pretty convinced he's just jinxed....I believe someone in Macca put some curse on him when he left coz his career has been steadly going downhill since he left - I thought the worst of it was over once he had left Renault but apparently I was quite wrong


No point having false hope coz he just ain't going to win anymore

Someone did voodoo??? Who that someone is??? haha!

[icegirljenni]

Nah this year is still undecided, next year are quite open you know

[Chrissie]

(07-11-2010 09:43 PM)WiTcH Wrote:  

(07-11-2010 09:31 PM)Chrissie Wrote:  Yeah, I know it's not all down to luck and he's made some stupid mistakes, Ferrari have made some stupid mistakes....but I'm pretty convinced he's just jinxed....I believe someone in Macca put some curse on him when he left coz his career has been steadly going downhill since he left - I thought the worst of it was over once he had left Renault but apparently I was quite wrong


No point having false hope coz he just ain't going to win anymore

Someone did voodoo??? Who that someone is??? haha!

I think it may have been part of their agreement they made when he left...perhaps it's why he didn't have to pay any money to get out of his contract