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And now you're changing two results.

If Renault had attached Alonso's 4 wheels on properly in Hungary and if Alonso didn't have an engine failure of his own in Monza the title would have been over before Brazil. It all balances out.

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"I am a believer, but I start each Grand Prix with 195 liters of fuel behind me," he explains. "I don't rely entirely on God, I rely on Prost."

He was also in the WDC battle! And with absolutely nothing to lose.

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"I am a believer, but I start each Grand Prix with 195 liters of fuel behind me," he explains. "I don't rely entirely on God, I rely on Prost."

Totally agree with this, says it all.

Jesus,

I need to wake up today. I can't believe I said that.

Thanks for correcting me mcdo, apologies Morgana

if you put it like that it seems he had an incredible run but statistics lie pretty damn good.
singapore: Hamilton + Maldonado problems meant Alonso inherited 2 places, nothing special
japan: all of his doing
korea: Hamilton hit trouble so he got a place + Massa faster, who stayed behind the last 10 laps
India: yeah, he had a pretty good start disposing of the two Maccas on the way (and I suspect he would have passed them anyway as McLaren was no match for Ferrrari ) but he needed Webbo to hit trouble to make 2nd
Abu Dhabi: is perhaps the race that totally proves my point - on a day where your main opponent starts from pitlane and the other strong opponent abandons you'd think he'll win it - well, no ! he needed once again drivers ahead to hit trouble to make his way otherwise I suspect Vettel would have gotten him
USA: well, he started 7th to begin with and apart from the start (expected) he only finished 3rd cause Webbo hit trouble.
Brazil: this is what puzzled me a lot - they told you via radio your opponent was hit, spun and is last. Massa gifted you 3rd.I was really expecting some sort of ego-burst or something, a lot closer to the McLarens. he struggled the whole race and if it hadn't been for Nico he wouldn't have gotten to the much needed podium. can you imagine Vettel out and the 1st lap and Alonso not champ cause he couldn't get 3rd past a Foce India ?! cause that was a very plausible scenario!

I hate doing race by race analysis but that's why I think he wasn't in his right frame of mind after Monza. Like I said, it worked beautifully in 2006 but not this year.

With the exception of the USA and Brazil and maybe Korea. I don't see how Alonso could have done any better. He can't make the car drive faster than it can. Maybe that was the maximum that the Ferrari could have gotten out of the race.

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Forza Fernando !

My friend, you don't have to apologise Hadn't mcdo mentioned it I would not have remembered either, it was two years ago and I am now finding it difficult to remember what I did yesterday!!

And there is no guarantee that Vettel would have won had his car been reliable but not that fast. And that is the point I am making: if you correct for the car's deficiencies, you should correct for all of them - ie, reliability and speed.

And an unreliable car does not DNF in all races, while a slower car is always slow. So what is worse, to lose 25 points now and then, or to not be able to score more than 10 consistently?

Well, I want to always own up to my mistakes.

I forgot how it was a 4-way race to the title, not a 3 way. Getting older!

Wrong. Alonso beat Hamilton off the line and was third going into the long straight after T3.

I'm sorry, but you're way off the mark. If you think that trying to overtake someone with the knowledge in your head that your attempts could very well end up in a crash (going for broke) is a sensible thing to do, then you (indirectly) just don't deserve a seat in Formula One. Irrespective of how fast you are, anyone that drives, and would willingly jeopardise the safety of not only themselves but another driver just for a position is an utter disgrace to the sport.

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I love how worked up some people are getting over an article... Must be offseason.

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Give 'em hell Dani!

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Ham had an anti-roll bar failure which pretty much destroyed his race ... with Massa comfortably faster than Alonso I have no doubts that on a normal race day Hamilton would have topped both.

Hamilton suffered an anti-roll bar malfunction long into the race, when he was already well down on both Ferraris.

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Not at the start of the race where Alonso overtook him into turn 1 and had no problem sitting in front of him.

But then Schumacher had the failures in Malaysia and Japan and Brazil.

It doesn't really matter in the sense that none of the two cars of Schumi and Alonso were competitive all season. Apart from Imola and China they didn't even see each other all year. That's what you get having a tyre war. A rather crap championship fight. Yes high level, but not fun.