25-08-2013, 22:30
(Este mensaje fue modificado por última vez en: 25-08-2013, 22:31 por maripi.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/23837726
There were two main topics of conversation - the Red Bull vacancy; and the state of the relationship between Ferrari and its star driver.
The second had arisen as a result of the extraordinary intervention by Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo. Who, the team's own website announced, had phoned Alonso to "tweak his ear" about not showing enough support for the team.
Exactly what had exercised Di Montezemolo so much remains in doubt, but the message coming out of Ferrari in Belgium was that Alonso should concentrate on what he is best at - driving - and leave the team to take care of the rest.
The impression given was of a team at war with itself, but Ferrari insist this is not the case at all, that all they are focused on is getting their season back on track.
To a large extent, and whatever is going on behind the scenes, it would appear as if that has happened.
A mixed-up qualifying session, in which Alonso ended up ninth, confused the picture. But in the race Alonso proved what had been obvious if you looked at his sector times, or his performance in the first and second parts of qualifying, when he was first and second. The Ferrari was genuinely fast in Spa.
A typically brilliant first lap, mixing perfect race-craft with extreme bravery in passing Red Bull's Mark Webber into Eau Rouge - repeating in reverse the move Webber had pulled on Alonso two years ago - put him up to fifth.
He was third by lap six, dispatching Jenson Button's McLaren and Nico Rosberg's Mercedes with clinical efficiency, and then second by lap 15, when he passed Hamilton.
This was a brilliant piece of driving by both men, showing an awareness and respect from which some of the drivers who engaged in more questionable driving elsewhere in the race would do well to learn.
Hamilton made a mistake at La Source, allowing Alonso to pass him down the hill before Eau Rouge. But that meant Hamilton had use of the DRS overtaking aid as they went up the hill.
He seemed sure to re-pass his old rival but Alonso braked as late as he dared into the Les Combes chicane and just held on. He quickly pulled away - and just as quickly realised Vettel was out of reach.
As Alonso put it afterwards: "When you are the second fastest you deserve to be second."
There were two main topics of conversation - the Red Bull vacancy; and the state of the relationship between Ferrari and its star driver.
The second had arisen as a result of the extraordinary intervention by Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo. Who, the team's own website announced, had phoned Alonso to "tweak his ear" about not showing enough support for the team.
Exactly what had exercised Di Montezemolo so much remains in doubt, but the message coming out of Ferrari in Belgium was that Alonso should concentrate on what he is best at - driving - and leave the team to take care of the rest.
The impression given was of a team at war with itself, but Ferrari insist this is not the case at all, that all they are focused on is getting their season back on track.
To a large extent, and whatever is going on behind the scenes, it would appear as if that has happened.
A mixed-up qualifying session, in which Alonso ended up ninth, confused the picture. But in the race Alonso proved what had been obvious if you looked at his sector times, or his performance in the first and second parts of qualifying, when he was first and second. The Ferrari was genuinely fast in Spa.
A typically brilliant first lap, mixing perfect race-craft with extreme bravery in passing Red Bull's Mark Webber into Eau Rouge - repeating in reverse the move Webber had pulled on Alonso two years ago - put him up to fifth.
He was third by lap six, dispatching Jenson Button's McLaren and Nico Rosberg's Mercedes with clinical efficiency, and then second by lap 15, when he passed Hamilton.
This was a brilliant piece of driving by both men, showing an awareness and respect from which some of the drivers who engaged in more questionable driving elsewhere in the race would do well to learn.
Hamilton made a mistake at La Source, allowing Alonso to pass him down the hill before Eau Rouge. But that meant Hamilton had use of the DRS overtaking aid as they went up the hill.
He seemed sure to re-pass his old rival but Alonso braked as late as he dared into the Les Combes chicane and just held on. He quickly pulled away - and just as quickly realised Vettel was out of reach.
As Alonso put it afterwards: "When you are the second fastest you deserve to be second."
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