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[alberto.ascari]

Naš reporter Tomáš Richtr intervjuiše Alonsa na Hungaroringu.

 

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Priceless!

[4_Webber]

Mislim da je otkad je u Meklarenu, svesno ili nesvesno, postao ubedljivo najzabavnija licnost medju vozacima.

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Fernandu Alonsu želim sretan rođendan! Neka ga provede u zdravlju, veselju i želim da se vrati u svoje mlađe izdanje već sledeće sezone

 

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Dame i gospođe, kralj mema i višestruki uzastopni aktuelni "people's champion"- Fernando Alonso

 

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Kakva budala

 

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Martin Brundle‏Потврђен налог @MBrundleF1

 

 

 

 

Alonso prob better than 3 guys on podium. Sad he's joking in a deck chair, waste of talent and reminds team bosses why they don't want him

 

 

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Jenson Button‏Потврђен налог @JensonButton 17 сатипре 17 сати

 

 

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Totally agree Martin, how dare an F1 driver have a personality and bring fun to a sport that sometimes takes itself way too seriously

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Alonso: My season has been "fantastic"

Fernando Alonso says that while 2017 has so far been very challenging for his McLaren team, on a personal level it has been “fantastic”.

The double world champion and McLaren have struggled all year in F1, with the outfit scoring just 11 points to leave it ninth in the constructors’ championship.

But Alonso feels he is driving at his most competitive for several seasons and is thoroughly enjoying driving the faster 2017 F1 generation of cars.

He also starred on his debut in the Indianapolis 500 with a strong showing in qualifying and the race before an engine problem forced his retirement in the closing stages.

“As a team we can’t be happy with the season so far,” said Alonso.

“We were making it into Q3 normally last year, ninth/10th was our average position whereas this year we struggled a bit more.

“On the personal side, it has been a very, very good season for me. With the 2017 cars, I’m able to drive back again to my driving style, I feel much more competitive than the previous years, I’m feeling competitive out there on the track.

“I had the Indy 500 which was a nice experience, go-kart circuit is going great, fantastic.

"So it’s been a fantastic first half of the season.”

McLaren has been hampered by Honda’s unreliability and poor performance this season, though the Japanese manufacturer has shown improvement in recent races.

“We can’t be happy with where we are with the situation of the reliability and performance,” said McLaren racing director Eric Boullier.

“So if we have to say after half a season where we are, we are working hard to recover at least our performance and competitiveness we had last year.

“With ambition, we need to do a better job this year. This is not where we are and where we want to be.”

Stoffel Vandoorne scored his first point of the season in Hungary with 10th, having made steady progress since Azerbaijan.

“The improvements we have shown have been very encouraging,” he said. “I’m feeling more and more comfortable with the car every race we are going and the chassis definitely is making good steps forward.

“The last couple of races, the performance has been very good. Details are very important, making some small adjustments to the set-up have helped me feel comfortable.”

[Rad-oh-yeah?]

The 2018 F1 driver market: Alonso lacks McLaren alternatives
2018 F1 season
11th August 2017, 11:40
Keith Collantine

 

Closed doors, burned bridges, sideways moves: Fernando Alonso would be forgiven for feeling dejected as he surveys his options for the 2018 F1 season.

While he could hardly have done a better job of reminding team bosses of his abilities this year, none of the top squads look likely to make room for him once his contact with McLaren expires after November’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Red Bull’s junior driver programme has supplied them with two stars in the shape of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo. A return to Ferrari, which he left three years ago frustrated at their lack of progress, is unrealistic.

And Mercedes? Toto Wolff made it clear last month they’re not looking to bring in Alonso.

“Without any doubt he’s an important personality in Formula One and a great driver and Honda and McLaren appreciate that,” said Wolff. “With us at the moment we are really happy with the line-up.”

“I know it’s not the answer you want to hear but stability is an important factor, the dynamics between the drivers is an important factor and we have no reason to complain.”

A driver of Alonso’s calibre is unlikely to settle for anything less than a place at a team aligned with a manufacturer. But no new manufacturers are likely to arrive before 2020, when F1’s next new engine regulations appear. Can Alonso stand to wait that long?

In the meantime he’s left with a choice of staying at McLaren, moving to Renault or leaving F1. Tied in with this is the question of McLaren’s engine plans for 2018, which appears to now be a straight choice between persevering with Honda or becoming a Renault customer.

(The latter scenario may seem unrealistic. Switching to Renault would mean McLaren go from getting F1’s least competitive engines for free to getting the second-worst power units for a price. It would also leave the team at the added disadvantage of having to accept Renault’s preferred engine design specifications instead of giving their own input.

But patience with Honda has worn thin after three years of serious under-performance. And those within McLaren eager to try an alternative can point to the fact Red Bull have already won a race with [TAG Heuer-branded] Renaults this year.)

Will Alonso desert F1 completley? There’s one good reason to expect not. Last year he said he would only stay in F1 beyond the end of his current McLaren contract if the cars delivered more driving satisfaction in 2017. The arrival of more spectacular cars this year has ticked that box.

Nonetheless his Indianapolis 500 run this year inevitably prompted speculation he could make a full-time switch to IndyCar racing if he doesn’t have a good enough offer for F1. But as Alonso has repeatedly pointed out his target in America is the Indianapolis 500 leg of the ‘triple crown’, not the championship.

While IndyCar’s shorter, more compact calendar may appeal to a driver who has has voiced concerns about F1’s growing schedule, Alonso knows from his competitive run at Indianapolis this year that he doesn’t need to do a full season to stand a chance of winning the race. When interviewed about it during a live IndyCar race broadcast in June, Alonso played down the possibility of a full-time IndyCar switch.

One factor in favour of Alonso making a full-time switch to IndyCar next year is the arrival of the championship’s new aerodynamic kit. Six years of accumulated set-up knowledge will be wiped out, making 2018 a good time for a new driver to come into the series. Even so, it seems an unlikely move.

The Le Mans 24 Hours is another of Alonso’s career goals. Crucially, Alonso can tackle this race without having to miss a grand prix. But now Porsche has followed Audi in quitting the series, Alonso’s chances of racing there appear to have diminished. Even if Toyota stays, there is no way he could drive for them while also being under contract to McLaren and Toyota’s major domestic market rival Honda.

All this seems to point to Alonso staying in F1, which he has already said is his first choice. A third stint at Renault appears to be a possibility as his management is known to have spoken with the team.

However Renault is also investigating the feasibility of Robert Kubica making a return to drive for them. Alonso has heaped praise on his rival in the past but would he really stand in the way of him returning to get his hands on a better drive for next year? Alonso must be eyeing the huge year-on-year performance gain Renault have made over the last 12 months and thinking “if they do that again next year…”

The counter-argument to this is Renault were always going to make strides in 2017 because their 2016 car was so underdeveloped. McLaren could arguably be a better prospect once Honda embark on the second year with the revised power unit design philosophy they introduced this year.

If Alonso is going to remain in F1 this could be the decision he faces. But with both cars unlikely to be contenders for race wins let alone championships next year, could Alonso’s extra-curricular activities be the deal breaker? Staying at McLaren for another year would at least give him the option of returning to the Indianapolis 500.

It might have seemed impossible a few months ago, but sticking it out for one more year at McLaren could be Alonso’s best option for 2018 before seeing if better options appear the year after.

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Znači biti ili ne biti pitanje se odgovara ove nedelje? Ako Meklaren ostane s Hondom Alonso ide u Indi, tamo se skoro sve posložilo za njegov debi. Istorijski sporazum Meklaren i Renooa bi zadržao Alonsa. Iskreno rečeno, sporazum sa Renoom bi bio najbolje rešenje. Honda može sklepati ponajbolju PJ u budućnosti ali bi isto tako bila nepouzdana do bola, čak bi i nove motore za 2020 nekako shebali pošto uvek imaju problema s dizajnom motora s unutrašnjim izgaranjem. A Meklaren neka nekako vata Poršea, Kosvorta i Ilijena kada dođe vreme za novu generaciju PJa.

 

Ovo su Alonsove reči sa jedne španske emisije gde je gostovao ▼
 

"Mclaren has to change some things for next year... One of them is the engine."
"Next Year I will drive F1 Experience with the Spanish King." (So... he will stay confirmed?)
"My decision will come after McLaren decides which engine will use next year"

[Rad-oh-yeah?]

An open letter to Alonso: Why you should swap F1 for IndyCar
By: David Malsher, US Editor
Yesterday at 9:04pm

 

Despite being one of the all-time greats in Formula 1 and despite still being in his prime, Fernando Alonso hasn't won a race in over four years. It's time, says David Malsher, for this legend to start finding career satisfaction once more.

Dear Mr. Alonso,

Millions of racing fans have long considered you one of the greatest ever F1 drivers. We’ve marveled at your dedication to duty in the garage, tenacity on track, racing judgment, bravery and skill.

We’ve admired your ultra competitiveness that turned you terminally resentful at McLaren first time around, 2007, when you encountered F1 rookie phenomenon Lewis Hamilton as your teammate.

We knew that partnership wasn’t going to end well, because of how irritated you’d been on the two or three occasions when your Renault teammate Giancarlo Fisichella managed to outqualify you or just happened to be in your way. Jarno Trulli’s one-lap pace you’d learned to deal with; you pretty much knew you’d demolish him on raceday because of your in-built warrior spirit.

And that has always been your defining characteristic. In terms of refusal to quit, you’ve belonged up among the gods of grand prix racing with Tazio Nuvolari, Stirling Moss, Gilles Villeneuve and Ayrton Senna, and it’s an attribute that has a truly galvanizing effect on all who work with you. It explains why former McLaren director Ron Dennis in 2014 carefully rebuilt the bridges the pair of you had burned in ’07, and lured you back.

And yet now there are strong rumors, which you’ve only half denied, that at Spa-Francorchamps you parked a healthy car. No, not a fast one, not one that was going to produce a points finish on a ‘power track,’ but nonetheless, a functioning car. And it’s not the first time those rumors have surfaced over the past two seasons. True or false, there was a time not long ago when such gossip would have had no validity.

Your fans will see your despair as the ultimate indictment – along with the points table – of this pathetically unproductive partnership between McLaren and Honda, second time around. Some may even say that this is proof that you don’t care about the money; that having a competitive car means everything to you. Your critics will say that, for what you get paid, you should drive your racecar come what may.

I guess I’m somewhere in the middle, in that I don’t like the idea of a driver capitulating while driving an operational racecar. Nigel Mansell did it in his final F1 start for McLaren, the 1995 Spanish GP, and it signaled the end of that ill-conceived partnership.

On the other hand, most people would understand your despair. We sympathized when you finished runner-up in the championship in both 2012 and 2013, despite having a demonstrably inferior car to the Red Bull of champion Sebastian Vettel. Many of us felt you had at least proven that you were still the best.

The fact that the stat books can’t – and never will – confirm this assumption is a source of irritation to your fans, so one can only imagine how mortifying the situation is for yourself that your last championship came 11 years ago, your last race win more than four years ago.

Since the start of 2014, your best results have been three fifth places; over the same period you’ve seen erstwhile teammate Hamilton rack up 37 wins and two championships, the now-retired Nico Rosberg take 20 wins and a title, and even your replacement at Ferrari, Vettel, has achieved seven wins at Maranello and may become champion for a fifth time this year.

If Formula 1 provides so little satisfaction – beyond demolishing your highly-regarded rookie teammate, Stoffel Vandoorne – what are your options for 2018? You’re locked out of Ferrari for now. Mercedes is likely to remain the domain of Hamilton, with the equable and quick Valtteri Bottas as an extremely cheap No. 2 (or No. 1.5, to be fair) that allows the team to 1) plow what would be your retainer into developing the car and 2) maintain harmony in the ranks.

Red Bull’s performance is roughly the same as Ferrari’s when you left. It pains me to point out that Williams hasn’t built a race-winning car in years. McLaren’s only alternative to Honda is Renault, which might make its cars more reliable and a little faster, but would still leave you struggling for podium finishes, let alone wins. Renault, Haas and Toro Rosso aren’t going to spend zillions to hire you, because they know that even your monumental talent isn’t going to bridge the gap to Mercedes and Ferrari.

Which leaves…?

IndyCar.

Now hear me out, señor. If you’re prepared to take a colossal pay-cut – think $4.7m rather than $47m – there are teams and sponsors who’d trip over themselves to make it happen.

At the Indianapolis 500 this year you were loved and appreciated by IndyCar, IMS, Honda, Andretti Autosport, McLaren, the media and the fans. Gratifyingly, we saw the sentiments reciprocated. Those who know you well or deal with you regularly in F1 admitted that at the Brickyard they saw you happy for the first time in years. This quite alien environment had intrigued you and taxed your brain and so you’d thrown your heart and soul into it – and been rewarded for that effort by being a frontrunner.

Now, the idea of you applying your mind and talent to all the tracks on the IndyCar calendar is one that would fill every racing fan with a similar sense of intrigue. Doing it at a time when your knowledge deficit to your rivals is reduced by everyone having to start over with the new universal aerokits surely adds to the appeal.

Without manufacturer-built aerokits, the Chevrolets and Hondas should be relatively evenly matched across all tracks. And while Team Penske will likely remain the gold standard in terms of sheer depth of financial and human resources, those guys can get beaten on any given weekend by almost any other team in the field. That's just the way IndyCar is.

Fernando, just think: for the first time in God-knows-how-long, you could join a high-speed open-wheel racing series where once again you are the difference maker, where your talents and relentless drive can take you to victory, where your natural feel for a car’s handling and tire life, and your capacity to think while driving at the limit, will immediately put you in the top echelon of drivers.

And it would enhance your reputation once you proved your versatility. It’s a cliché regularly trotted out by IndyCar fans (and media) that the series' schedule of road, street, short-oval and superspeedway courses offers a unique blend of challenges. But in this case, the cliché is true.

People weren’t amazed at how Juan Pablo Montoya and before that, Mansell, adapted to Indy car racing’s tracks that involved left and right turns. In both cases, that was expected. What blew people’s minds was this pair's ability to fathom the short ovals.

Your Indy 500 teammate Alexander Rossi says those tracks are still his weakness, but he joined IndyCar at a time when the cars have way too much grip compared with power output, and are therefore far removed from everything he has encountered before. Short ovals with the manufacturer aerokits have required only a downchange rather than a lift off the throttle for tight turns.

Remember, that will change next year; according to 2018 aerokit testers Montoya and Oriol Servia, an IndyCar’s pace on ovals will be far more determined by the talent of the guy in the cockpit, as the downforce gets reduced, and the differential between terminal speed on the straights and turn apex speed is increased.

It’s all part of what we hope will be the Verizon IndyCar Series’ collective drive to turn the emphasis of the series onto the drivers – and you could be part of that. Sure, you’d have a metaphorical target on your back, but that’s because of your world class reputation, which comes with the territory of 1) everyone in the IndyCar paddock acknowledging you’re one of the greats, and 2) your being a frontrunner once more.

Wouldn’t it feel good to be in that position again?

So there you have it. Yes, it would be wonderful if you brought the hallowed McLaren marque with you: the series will always welcome another prestigious team, particularly one with a brief but successful history in Indy car racing. Many might see it as logical for you to return to Andretti Autosport, which appears to be heading back to its former greatness, or to at least stick with the Honda brand, since Honda Performance Development’s engines appear to have an edge over the Chevrolets (for now).

But the truth is, you’re in the happy situation of having the power, money and status to make such decisions completely on your own terms, knowing there’s not an IndyCar team that wouldn’t want you.

So next time you’re classified 18th because your power unit’s MGU-H or MGU-K has turned into a POS, or next time a Mercedes goes past you so quick that it feels like you’re in a GP2 car, try and recall the immense gratification you felt on those distant days when you were able to stand on the center step of a victory podium.

No, IndyCar isn’t Formula 1… but there’s a far greater upside to that than downside. It’s surely time to make yourself happy again and there’s only one way an ultra-competitive, ultra-talented winner can do that.

See you in St. Pete. I hope.

Kind regards,

Malsher

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Fernando Alonso je u Parizu...

 

[alberto.ascari]

Fernando Alonso je u Parizu...

 

 

 

Dobro jbt, može da bude teleproMptovan dUrektno u Viry, svejedno više neće uzeti nijednu titulu.

 

'Oćemo li ove sezone još o nečem?

 

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Matori prdonja vaskrso samo zbog ove izjave 
 

Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One's chairman emeritus, said: 'The Renault deal is all done. Alonso staying is super news.
'But I can't see why McLaren will be any happier with Renault than they are with Honda. It wasn't Honda's fault things didn't work out, it was McLaren's. Every day they had a fight about everything, instead of working with them, which was a little bit stupid.'