I think Mclaren is rather famous for letting their drivers duke it out and race each other. The driver lineup of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost/Gerhard Berger comes to win when they would actually knock each other out racing for position. I think it would be hilarious and awesome to see Lewis Hamilton be quicker than Alonso and have Alonso get all pissed and they collide and both DNF for a Ferrari 1-2, and eventually the championship. I can see that happening. Hamilton is something special, and he'll be around for a while, he's only 22, and in his first Grand Prix he finished third behind the defending World Champion. Theres always room for improvement...
It's only been one race, how can anyone even speculate? I would guess so because that's how McLaren was always run. I don't know anything about any clauses in FA's contract about his number 1 status but i also doubt Ron Dennis would agree to anything. Anyway, we'll see as the season unfolds.......
They might be close, but I think Alonso will be substantially faster than Hamilton. Considering that he did not gap Alonso at all this past race makes me think any speed comparisons are a bit hasty.
I agree. The only reason Hamilton passed him at the start of the Australian GP was because FA got a bad start, so Lewis capitalized on it. I think Alonso could have passed Lewis a LOT earlier if he really wanted to. I like Lewis, and I don't really like FA, but he is a 2x World Champion.
Fred may be a 2X wdc but Lewis is Dennis' favorite son . . . so I can't fathom why he'd have them both on same team - Lewis has so much more to gain than Fred . . . Carol Kinda kin to a Ricky Carmichael - James Stewart (one helluva a rider) supercross comparison?
Having a current World Champion and a future World Champion on the same team is a situation most team managers would covet, I would think.
Maybe I'm wrong, but what could be better (excitement, media) for F1 than Lewis as WDC (this season)?
Since you asked the question: A fatal accident by one of the WDC contenders. And before somebody gets out the flame thrower: Popularity (measured in viewers per race on TV) went sky high after Imola 94. Sick, sad and true.
THAT would actually be good for the sport in the long run, but barely increase viewership in the short.
Interesting since that was when I stopped watching F1. I did not watch another race until 2004. 10 years. It really hurt me when we lost Senna like that.
There were a lot of real racing fans who got too disgusted/sad with F1 that they stopped watching. But the overall effect was a mass flocking towards F1 by all those who got bored by a "too safe F1". Not sure how long that effect lasted though.
