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Originally Posted by Aerkuld

According to this article on BBC Sport...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7022171.stm

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"If you hire a world champion, then you must give him the number one status."

That's normally true, and I'm sure Alonso had No. 1 status at the beginning of the year.

But the sport has NEVER seen a rookie like Hamilton. Hamilton was not given No. 1 status, he flat out took it, on the track, from Alonso.