I'm a ferrari F1 fan, not necessarily an alonso fan, except I am honest enough to admit he's one of the best drivers ever. Definitely top 3 current and probably top 7 or 8 all time.
His performance this year has earned him that no matter what the emotions tell the voices.
but all over this thread, people are jumping on the i hate alonso bandwagon for something alonso did not do.
If you dislike alonso for something HE did, fine. Whatever makes you FEEL good.
But to dream up stuff to blame him for is ............. well it makes me think that someone needs to lay off the estrogen.
I saw the yellow light on the telebision. It was not white, it was not green.
It was yellow.
AFAIK that typically means at least a local yellow flag in F1 but I'm not an F1 official. My bet is no one in this thread is either.
The explanation given on the telebision was that that light meant track condition was less than stellar.
Gee, I wonder if the drivers trying to find some visibility in the spray needed a light to tell them the obvious.
I also heard the announcers, who are better informed than i am re: F1, say they've never seen that before.
So maybe the yellow track condition light was a new thing, maybe it was new to this track, maybe it was discussed in the pre-race driver's meeting, i dunno. I was not there.
but here's the facts:
usually a yellow light means a local yellow.
There was a yellow light.
It MIGHT have meant something else besides what is typically means.
It might have been something new that F1 has come up with and that the fans and announcers were not aware of.
That is up to the people that enforce the rules, and understand the rules, and that were in the pre-race driver's meeting to decide.
So ferrari asks for an interpretation, an explanation, an investigation.
Let the experts decide, all they did was file a formal request for a decision.
Can anyone here WHO IS HONEST say that red bull would not file the same thing if the roles were reversed? I seriously doubt it.
Making a knee-jerk reaction based on only a smidgeon of information is something that people do when emotion controls their thoughts and actions, not something grown men should aspire to. Spock would be ashamed.