F1 » Whitmarsh: Lewis drove a great race.

Alfonso, poo poo, what a nut!!!!!

F1 » Whitmarsh: Lewis drove a great race.

ALFONSO, you missed the finer point in my sarcastaic remark to robert. Once again you have not read all the comments. robert said: "In equal cars I think the top 3 (Fer,McL, BMW) teams would be on top of each other on a track with passing opportunities". In equal cars it would be amazing to see not just the present top three, but what about Renault, Williams, RBC etc. Don.t you think that in an equal car Davidson would have the same chance as anyone else????? Alfonso, you are never up to date, because you do not read the complete article or the comments before you post your drivel. Once again you have made a monkey of yourself.

F1 » Alonso: Don't call me indifferent.

Racing drivers live to go fast and to win. The great drivers do not only want to win, they need to win and the failure to have the means to do so, a fast reliable car, makes their life a misery. FA is of those very fast drivers with fantastic feel of the cars he drives. He told Renault about the situation of their car from the first test in January. It is unwise to tell your principals what they want to hear, feedback should always be 100% accurate even if it shocks them to the reality that they have a bad car. I do not call this indefference, its being realistic. I have no doubt that this year it's Ferrari's year, but in 2009 FA will be challenging again for the WDC. We'll see.

F1 » Heikki dead ten years ago, claims Olvey.

Tyre barriers are only safe if they are built in such a way that they have efficient water drainage if it rains. If they fill with water they become a solid mass of very hard matter. We all remember Michael Schumachers terrifying crash in July, 1999 at Silverstone.

F1 » Angry Davidson tells rivals to 'shut up'.

Mark, SAF1 has a going team to sell. It is not easy to enter F1 as a newcomer: remember the Prodrive saga of some months back? F1 is the most technologically advanced, high budget, top expertise motorsport. If these requirements are not all met then cars like the SA's will be unsafe and may place other drivers health in jeopardy. The Japanese should close the book on Sato once and for all and as I suggested SAF1 should sell the team. They are already in heavy debt ($60M just to Honda) and do not have steady sponsors. Davidson deserves a better drive, maybe he could be in a Toro Rosso next year, if Coulthard retires from Red Bull.

F1 » Whitmarsh: Lewis drove a great race.

I have followed this debate after my openeing post, and Ghost2912 have put in some excellent follow ups. As I said the Ferraris are the best, fastest, most reliable, best tuned and setup cars on the grid. As Ralf has pointed out they were on fresh engines and during the race they were not going flat out, they just controlled and administered the race as it suited them with excellent radio communications with their controllers. They saved their engines knowing that they have to use it in Turkey. Lewis trashed his engine in Bahrain, and in Spain he was going flat out. Hamiltron, Kubica only came into F1 in 2006. robert, if all cars were equal Davidson would be challenging for the WDC.

F1 » Angry Davidson tells rivals to 'shut up'.

It is about time that Honda stops funding and keeping this team going simply to please the backers of Takuma Sato. As Anthony Davidson said the Super Aguri cars are a botched up job, and there facilities are not up to the standard required to build F1 cars. Therefore this makes the cars unsafe and a danger to others when racing. This team should be sold to a works team to make it successful. It would be nice to see an American, European or Far East car builder entering the fray in F1 with a solid budget and real expertise. Bernie Ecclestone would do well to attract such a group to F1 instead of SAF1, they are not race worthy at the moment.

F1 » Whitmarsh: Lewis drove a great race.

The way I see it is this. At the moment Ferrari has the best, allround cars on the grid and they also have an experienced driver lineup in the form of Kimi who is the reigning WDC with extensive experience as well as in Massa who has been trained by Michael Schumacher who is also the test and approval driver for Ferrari. McLaren has a good car, but a sophomore driver lineup both of whom although fast lack experience. BMW-Sauber has an experienced driver in Heidfeld who is being outclassed by Kubica who himself is a newcomer to F1. Both McLaren and BMW-Sauber are suffering drastically from the lack of a fine tuning setup race driver to get them past the Ferraris. Status quo at present.

F1 » Brawn: Don't rule out Alonso Ferrari switch.

of an overall Championship material driver, for the likes of Honda. Dave, I quite agree with you up to a point. I'm sure that if Lewis hypothetically goes to Ferrari now, he'll be a great success considering that he'll still have the great Schumacher to develop and setup his car, in the same way and manner that last year he had Fernando to setup the Mclarens. This is the point of this topic. Ross considers only two drivers with a possibility of three to be outstanding from the rest, and as he said Alonso is one of them. He did not mention anyone else in this regard, we are all speculating.

F1 » Brawn: Don't rule out Alonso Ferrari switch.

Simon, of course everyone has his opinions and view on any topic, but unless we are realistic we will never agree on this subject. I have always said that Lewis is a very good and very fast driver. Definitely. I have also and always said, and I maintain this, that he is very new and inexpeienced in F1 and has not matured enough to be considered in the same category as the greats. He has not won any title in F1 as yet. Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Alonso, Piquet, Hakenen and others are multiple WDC's and considered to be among the great. The difference at the moment is that Lewis is not considered to be either a setup or development driver and therefore falls short of what's required