Well, if it's due to a shock, then Honda may be the one pushing to avoid its name getting in a huge PR issue. Talk about airbag recall times ten.
Maybe it would be better if they told everyone what happened so it doesn't happen again? Nah. This is F1. Politics as usual.
I love how the argument is based on zero objective evidence, rather it's based on assumed 'phantom' evidence that his injuries were indeed subjective. As if it wouldn't have made a difference anyway, and for crying out loud Ferrari buried the hatchet many years ago so who cares.
he's got the same disease with MS that Kraftwerk and toil have with Ham. Some sort of localized brain shut down.
Not phantom, just the facts: After testing the Ferrari F1 (and realizing what a lemon it was) MS gave a big hoopla press conference in Lausanne. Alongside him were his doctors. Live on TV and the internet. And they (MS as well as the doctors) stated that his injuries from the motor cycle accident were so severe, that the risk of ending up as a vegetable were very high. And because of that he cannot drive a F1 for a very long time if not forever. I watched that press conference live on the internet. Yet miraculously only a few months later he signs the deal with MB and tests their car in the winter. Did the severe life threatening injury from the bike accident vanish overnight? As for Ferrari: Lets not forget that he wasn't just any F1 driver at that time but still on the Ferrari payroll as a "consultant" for just such a case. The team was massively disappointed when he claimed headaches after testing the F1 and decided not to help the team going forward.
The former Commissioner of the FIA and Vice President of the Spanish Automobile Federation, Joaquin Verdegay, said, "It would be easier to believe if we had been told he (Alonso) blacked out or he had a bad breakfast, which can happen to anyone. "But something happened. The loss of consciousness was the cause, not the effect." Bernie Ecclestone said: "It is as though he lost his senses for a moment. I don’t know if an electric shock was possible, but I think that if it was that, the engineers and doctors would be able to detect it. Certainly it is a mystery" F1, Formula 1 news - Vettel footage key to Alonso mystery - report | Nextgen-Auto.com
Ah, an Mclaren confirmation. So it's either a lie, or it will be turned around. How many times has Mclaren now gone from ''no injury'' to ''injury'' and vice versa? I've lost count.
Jacques Villeneuve is not exactly an Alonso fan. Villeneuve slams Alonso for lack of Ferrari ?respect?
Alonso dragged his POS Ferrari F1 car around making the team points when the great Massa and Kimi could barely qualify. Villeneuve needs to look in the mirror about failed respect for a team.
Alonso carried that pig of a car on his back for years. He's the one who got no respect. But one never leaves Ferrari. The honorable thing to do is wait until Ferrari dumps you.
Very similar situation to Valentino Rossi and Ducati. They blamed him when he left but now we know the bike was the only POS
I think Villeneuve is happy about every microphone or camera he can talk into...No need to take his opinion serious...
Honestly ? I love hearing from him whether I agree or not. I wish more ex F1 drivers would be as politically incorrect, imho he has a refreshing perspective
+ a million In this PR sanitized world where everybody bows to the sponsors, it is so rare and refreshing when one of the drivers steps out of line and speaks his mind. No wonder I always loved Montoya and Kimi. Luckily Seb and Hami now occasionally slip and blurr something out before some PR spindoctor or a 20 second TV delay can catch it.
JV has some issues with living up to expectations. Being the son of Gilles raised expectations enough, but to finish 2nd in his rookie year in F1 and follow that with a WDC in his second year certainly raised expectations. He won 7 races during that WDC season. He won 11 of his first 2 F1 seasons (33 races)! (Schumacher had 2 wins in his first 2 seasons, 32 races) I don't think any other driver had a better start to his F1 career. And I don't think there is another WDC who went winless in 9 seasons following his championship year. He never won another F1 race and only won one race, an LMP1 co-drive, in the next 16 years after his WDC year. So, JV is has a big case of what might have been. No wonder he pops off occasionally. But he seems to be right about as often as he won races.
He was and probably still is the commentator at SkyF1 Italia so his comments are often very populistic, directed at the italian tifosi imo Plus, like E Jordan and others, he's paid to fill up the voids and be controversial
There is a difference between being "politically incorrect" or "generally opposite"...Villeneuve allways needs to talk different from everyone else just to be quoted...And he is usually asking for standards he never met himself...
Or to put it differently: Indy Champion F1 Champion Le Mans winner One of those super rare trifectas. Puts him into the Mario Andretti league of legends
