... perusing Fernando's racing resume ~

... 5 hallmark characteristics of Fernando Alonso:

1). Dependency -
-- Prima Dona driver syndrome; mollycoddled; lavished unprecedented levels of preferential treatment; over-reliance upon an expansive hierarchy to prop him up; over-reliant upon team-orders; over-reliance upon a bewildering array of cleverly conceived contractual terms, and constant team intervention to reset Alonso's pecking order for him;

2). Motivation -
-- weakens as season progresses; compensates becoming increasingly political, down the stretch; late season, Alonso always regressed to parity, with Felipe;

3). Character & Integrity -
-- scorched earth mentality; burned bridges; career established at the expense of a raft individuals used up and discarded; devious; obsessed with absolute control, at the expense of winning; compensates for shortcomings by playing politics; Mr. Teflon, one scandal right after another, though nothing ever sticks to Fernando, denote anywhere in close proximity to him, people drop like flies, fall on their swords, get thrown under the bus; people are to be exploited and discarded;

4). Intellect -
-- Achille's heel, obsessed with absolute control; inability to intellectualize his plight, that over-usurping control strangles creativity and innovative axiom; Alonso's hallmark character flaw, faced any inkling of a loss of control (e.g., 2007; Hamilton), he unravels;

5). Talent issue -
-- Dr. Jeckle/Mr. Hyde race resume; difficult to assess his real talent level; over-reliance upon team-orders suggests Alonso is weak, and overrated; bisecting Alonso's race resume at the precipice of the 2006 mid-season mass damper ban suggests Alonso is two completely different drivers; actual level of talent disguised by mass dampers, thereafter Alonso compensated, becoming political, elevating himself exerting control to isolate and disadvantage teammates; padding his points tally usurping his teammates' points haul, inflated perceptions of Alonso level of talent, on the basis of his artificially elevated standing in the championship; only once (e.g., 2007) has Alonso achieved a top 5 points haul, without a heavily disadvantaged teammate -- asj.