Mr Alonso seems to be having a little bit of difficulty working with McLaren's ethos, and quite possibly is becoming a liability:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6932307.stm

Obviously he was too busy carting during the late 80s (Prost/Senna) and too busy being a Renault driver (Raikonnen/Montoya) to notice how equally McLaren treat their drivers - and let them fight...

I hope he goes asap. I don't think there's much room at McLaren for a primadonna like him - particularly if it compromises his team and team mate. His idiocy (apparently now they weren't counting down to a gap, but discussing tyres whilst he was stationary in the pits, delaying Lewis) have cost the Team 13 contructors points on the day, and probably (assuming they'd have qualifed 1st and 2nd anyway) a one/two in the race (18 constructors points).

Put it this way, I think McLaren may have made a bit of a mess this weekend. So, which Mercedes backed driver is available then?

I don't think it helped that they managed to get into the situation where Lewis was worried he would compromise his track position if he had to let Alonso through.

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I thought of mentioning that pair, but I don't think they were ever in the Senna/Prost bracket, or the conflicting characters such as Raikonnen and Montoya (and they were arguably more successful than the latter pair too!)...

Sounds interesting. Nice to see another Mercedes backed driver in the team, or give P de la R a chance to win a GP as a decent team driver, or even better, finally give Gary Paffett his chance. How great would it be to have an all British team (Ilmor were Anglo-Italian, so we'll keep that tenuous link to Mercedes! )

Craig. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2007 at 5:25pm:


Isn't Martin Brundle Coulthard's manager?

Maybe Brundle is just an advisor.. now you mention 2MB I don't recall David being managed by them... but I can definitely remember at some point Martin Brundle mentioning he had to keep schtum about certain things concerning DC on ITV's coverage.  

Perhaps I'm wrong  

Craig. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2007 at 6:04pm:


First thing I'd ask is for a Paddock press pass for Silverstone  

Certainly Martin Brundle did used to say he managed DC, but I'm sure that's probably as part of a company, as these management things generally are now.

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Autosport have run articles about Prodrive, and the general speculation that as it would effectively be a McLaren/Mercedes "B" team as a customer, then Paffett and De La Rosa would be the drivers....


...maybe Alonso could go there as "team leader"!