Pretty much the same stuff he's been saying the past few weeks but there's some good bits in here....
Quote:Maranello, 5 March – Nine days before the start of the 2010 Formula 1 Championship Fernando Alonso spoke to Pino Allievi from the “Gazzetta dello Sport” daily.
Alonso, Italy is waiting for a miracle.
“My father always told me that a driver can win races and even titles, but if he doesn’t drive a Ferrari he hasn’t achieved anything. So here we are. I’m ready, I’ve come to Ferrari to win.”
From whom did you get this competitive attitude?
“I don’t know. Even when I’m eating my pudding I have to finish first. When I was a child coming back from school with my mother we raced, from traffic light to traffic light. And she had to let me win to avoid me becoming grumpy. I was a disaster!”
What does Ferrari have that the others don’t?
“Tradition, coherence, passion. Since the first day in Maranello I’ve seen that even the people responsible for the rear view mirrors show the same enthusiasm as if it was their car. There’s feeling, heart.”
Your teammate is Felipe Massa. Skilful and fast. Are you talking to each other? Did he give you any advice?
“Yes, regarding technical things of the car’s behaviour. The relationship with Ferrari is something personal and everybody lives it his own way.”
The competitors?
“Massa, Hamilton, Button, the two Red Bull drivers, Schumacher: I didn’t expect him to come back.”
There are many good drivers in F1, but in the end what is it that makes the difference?
“The head. The ten best drivers are extremely close together, if we exclude the car, the tyres and the team. The one who gives 100% prevails. There are drivers using 93% of their talent and others 97%: if one gets out 99% in 19 races, he’ll be World Champion.”
You have a family background where danger has always been the order of the day…
“My father was responsible for the explosives in mines. There were some explosions in the company’s depot where he worked and several people died. As I child I didn’t perceive risk at all.”
And today?
“I know what risk means and the one in traffic scares me more. Although the emotions come out before the start of the race, because this is the moment when you’re up for it, when it’s about your and the team’s expectations. But after five or six laps the stress fades out.”
Fatalistic?
“Yes. I think everything is set up for us, everybody has his own fate.”
When did you start earning money with races?
“At the age of 14 I won the kart World Championship and I was offered to change the team. I didn’t accept and they started paying me a symbolic fee for every race. So that’s more or less when I turned professional.
Are you keeping a race diary?
“I always have. I’m writing my feelings down, the changes regarding the car and my observations. I’ve got some notes I’m going through before every race; doubts generate tension. Adrenaline and anxiety generate mistakes.”
Quick decisions or do you meditate?
“Really fast decisions.”
They say that you are a good imitator of Aznar…
“Oh well, not all the imitations work out well.”
But you’re extremely good as a magician: is it important to hide the truth from your competitors in F1?
“Impossible. You’re always working under the eyes of everybody, so you can’t play tricks.”
Can you tell us now when you had the first serious contact with Ferrari?
“Last summer, when we were talking about a possibility for 2010. First we spoke about 2011, which was far away.”
Are you recognised in Italy?
“Yes, and the question was always the same: when are you coming to Ferrari? I was asked that by someone in a red Ferrari jacket when I was skiing in Madonna di Campiglio. He stopped and asked: So, when are you coming to Ferrari? I said: soon.”
Where did you learn Italian?
“Just by speaking it. I’ve never studied it. In fact when I’m writing in Italian it’s a disaster; I’m struggling with ligatures, I never know when to double v or p.”
Your wife Raquel is a famous singer: are you ever going to see her shows?
“Rarely. She’s giving around 50 concerts per year. I’m maybe going to see two. A very low percentage.…”
What did she say about you going to Ferrari?
“She was happy. We’re talking a lot about our respective lives an also about racing.”
You are a football fan: Milan, Inter, Juve or Roma?
“I grew up with Milan, which was the nightmare of my team Real Madrid. That’s why I really respect them.”
the still address Raquel as "wife" guess that the rumors about divorcing is not accurate.Thanks for sharing it Chrissie
thanks chrissie :)
i wish to read a page of his dairy!!!
and u will never know if he's divorced or no.. all these things r secrets that time will reveal..
Thanks a lot Chrissie
Not a lot of people was thinking about the Schumacher return
It's a little bit later for him and I think (hope) that he must stop definitively
It's like a game for him but the game is already over
Nobody's said it to him ??
We'll never have te chance to hear Fernando who imitate Aznar or someone else
Maybe one day you'll read the diary Alonso 4ever
Fernando said in an earlier interview with Ferrari's website that he didn't beleive in God.
Now he says
Quote:Fatalistic?
“Yes. I think everything is set up for us, everybody has his own fate.”
Then who sets it up?
Contradiction there Mr Fernando.
As far as I recall fate isn't part of religion...not Catholic religion anyway...it's been that long since I've studied religion though I could be wrong
Basically he is trying to say its setup for everyone, well someone or something has to "set it up" for you yes?
Then thats nothing but a supernatural or some kind of godly entity. For all intents and purposes the universal god.
Yes but in the Catholic religion, we believe that God gives you free will, thus your fate is up to you
Yeah I believe in Fate but not God. Religion is really not for me, but I do think that everyone has their own 'destiny' and that things happen for a reason.
So here is the question folks.
A person doesn't believe in god. Thats ok.
Doesnt have a religion, which is also ok.
But they believe in fate, Ok again.
So everything is setup for this person in terms of fate, but who/what is setting it up? Surely it cant set by itself that would be a lame paradox. So what would this entity who sets it up all for you be called?
Something doesnt add up.
But do you really need someone or something to set it up? It is an interesting question. I've just always thought that things happen for a reason. Perhaps there is a God but perhaps there isn't? Who truly knows the answer? Maybe Fate is the God? Does everything have to add up? Really it depends how much you want to think about it, it doesn't make much sense but there you go.
What do you believe in Tension?
I have the belief that everything has an explanation, there are no things that needs a blind belief to avoiding answering a question.
The problem with the concept of god being the creator is that he is like the designer of the universe, but then where did he come from? Who created the designer? No explanation possible, we are apparently told believe that god simply is and exists as is. Very odd.
I am under the belief we don't have all the answers so we shouldn't go and make these baseless assumptions. We don't have proof for god nor do we have proof to say there is no god. We just don't have enough understanding of the universe.
The reason why I don't have a faith in god is that why are tsunamis and tragedies happening to millions of people, they can all be bad. That's religious bullshit made up by humans. Why is there suffering while vile evil people dont suffer at all. Oh yeah were are told they will suffer in "hell", who knows if they did or not? They probably maybe having a good time laughing their arses off in some other reality or dimension. This school of thought comes becuase we are told god is for truth and good. Well havent seen much of that really.
If a child died under a truck, you cant say the child deserved it. The child may have observed the signal and walked correctly, he might have done everything right that he can possibly do, but the truck driver ran the stop light. Where was god? Oh but then we get this line "god called him to be with him". Gee thats so nice to know right? God likes the child so much he had to have him killed in a painfull death to be with him.
Sounds like a lot of bullshit to me.
These people in religious power make up shit to explain away things they dont have an answer for. The day religion said "we dont know" will be the day many will actually start having faith in religion or even god.
Me I don't believe in god, but at the same time I don't believe in fate. But i have seen things which can make you go wow how did that happen and why did it have to happen just the way it did at the right time when you most needed it? God? Who knows. And sometimes you go gee this looks like it was meant to happen, looking back to the sequence of events that have led to that point. Fate? Who knows.
But what I do see and have full faith in is that there is nothing unexplained in this universe. If there is something unexplained it is because the understanding is yet to be achieved. It is a temporary thing. Soon that knowledge will be acquired and a new reality is then apparent.
Everything has a balance and equation. There is a method to everything in universe. That's what I think.
I completely agree with that. We have the same reasoning for lack of belief in God or religion. If there is a God, why do such nasty events happen? One of my relatives died of cancer a few years ago, and they didn't smoke or drink etc and was a good person, yet you've got people such as Jon Venables who although is now back in prison, he sexually assualted, tortured and killed a toddler when he was 10, why is he still alive? Who in their right mind would create a species that could be so evil? It is also true, if God is real, who created God? There must be answers for everything, as it's not possible for there not to be. Everything has an explanation, we just haven't found it yet.
Thats the other reason I don't believe in religion, is that things such as the Bible must have been created by another human just like us but many years ago. If someone came up to you now and gave us a book and told you to follow it, would you? It doesn't make sense.
Well actually, not to piss off those who are ardent Christians, the Bible is nothing but a collection of some Sumerian teachings and other cultures along with some events that might have happened during the time of Christ.
It has been translated and recounted by many people, each one of them adding their own spice to the stories. Down the line you get a altered and changed version of the tales than what they were originally meant. Some of them strange original manuscripts point to things that modern science and religion would kill to prevent further studies on so they can protect their power. Because what you may find can change human society as we know it.
I have seen verified reports of human skeletons found on rock formations that are over 150 million years old. Now what could be possibly wrong with that? Well man was supposed to have evolved about 1-2 million years ago and the homo sapien man some 250,000 years ago. So where did these early humans come from?. Charles Darwin's evolution just got thrown out of the window. They ensured such finds never see the light of day or they get stamped out of the scientific community. There are structures found in formations as old as 300million years. Some bones have been found 4-5 millions of years, its spread all over the timeline. Either the dating methods that we all approve in the scientific community are all wrong or what you have is a genuine case of human antiquity.
But this is not talked about or taught in schools, because unlike what people think, science is not completely corruption free, those who have vested interests are trying to protect religious and political power at any cost, they will even sanction murder to preserve their power.
I know many cases where scientific journal publications have been filled with falsified data to meet deadlines and gain fame against the competition. And these papers will then be referred to by other researchers as 'fact'. This is how knowledge corruption and filteration is going on.
I have reason to believe some even have the original manuscripts to give new insight into the makings of the bible and the true past of human evolution or creation or whatever you want to call it. We live in a world of lies and deception and an elite few have it all covered and they are in the know about the latest and correct information.
You may find it shocking but the deep sections of major Universities in the world have all links to various religious figure heads around the world. What are they so interested in? Why do they have to seek a covert partnership in science. Its only one reason - if you control the flow of knowledge you control power. Knowledge is power.
OK, think I'm in a minority here now coz I do believe in God
The reasons that I was taught for bad things happening goes back to that whole free will thing - like the example tension gave of the child being run over by the truck driver disobeying the stop light - I remember in religion class in school we had several discussions exactly like this - it's not that the child deserved it or that God was calling him as such, but it was the child's free will that let him make the decision to cross the road at that point and the truck driver's decision to run the red light, it was just unfortunate that both happened at the same time. Like I said before, for me, we make our own fate....it's up to us what becomes of ourselves in our lives....God can't be blamed for all the bad things that happen.
Don't know if that makes sense or not...it's just what I've been brought up to believe.....
I'm going to stop now before I start to sound like a preacher
Human write for long time about God or some gods from the moment that he know writing before he transmit the message oraly so prophets or those whom we so call leave messages...
That some people considered verified and proved and they named them the Bible, the Torah, Koran for a long time the man tries to explain the reasons of the creation of the world and the elements and had
explained before the scientific discoveries : the
world. The sacred books were the object of cruel fights in the history. The tolerance of the other religions becoming sometimes impossible. What always invited me has to remain much of the time a criticism but opened to the various religions. The fate of the man is what it makes despite of effectively injustices live
Interesting views guys keep em coming.
Another interesting thing you can note.
Fernando seems to be doing one same thing at Singapore and Japan in 2008 now in Bahrain 2010. That is to look skywards and shake both hands as if to acknowledge someone above for the good fortune.
Isnt that a sort of religious reaction or belief on god?
He is not known to believe in God.
But he seems to thanks the heaven everytime he wins ! I agree with your remark.
(03-14-2010 10:55 PM)Tension_36th Wrote: [ -> ]Another interesting thing you can note.
Fernando seems to be doing one same thing at Singapore and Japan in 2008 now in Bahrain 2010. That is to look skywards and shake both hands as if to acknowledge someone above for the good fortune.
Isnt that a sort of religious reaction or belief on god?
Sign of grateful nothing related to god really.