Basically, “mine is bigger than yours” and thus, Kimi ironically took advantage of his old team that couldn’t give him reliable cars and then they get reliable cars and they still couldn’t win lol
Lewis is why drivers are sceptical about having the reigning F2 champion as their team-mate. Fernando is why nobody wants to move to Red Bull while Max is there.
Goes back a lot further than that - and the F2 thing has no relevance now. Hamilton wasn't the regining F2/GP2/F3000 champion - he was along-term McLaren protege with listerally - literally - thousands of miles of testing laps in current McLaren cars. Any current F2 champion cannot - by rule - gain that anymore. Just look at how long it took Palmer to beat magnussen, Nasr (2nd in GP2) to get to grips; even Leclerc wasn't setting the world on fire at Sauber initially. Hamilton is more comparable to Vettel - who jumped straight in at BMW-Sauber, having been a BMW-Sauber test driver for 18 months, and scored points on debut. The problem Fernando had is that he was promised a team built around him, but there was already a long-term driver there... Same thing Vettel had at Red Bull, where he had already been with them for 8 years before making his debut in F1; instantly at home vs Webber - as was Alonso himself at Renault in 2003 Nobody moves to the hot team while their favoured driver is there, unless there's something exceptional such as Prost, insisting McLaren go get Senna (yes, really!) but people used to avoid being Fangio's teammate; Clark, Brabham, Prost, Senna, Schumacher; all drivers who many did not want to be paired with. With Lotus also it was pretty much every driver from Clark onwards as nobody felt they could run two top-line cars.
I know you mentioned the alternating strategy per race week, but I seem to remember it was who got the final lap. It was Alonso's turn that week, but Hamilton manipulated the situation so that HE would get the final lap. Thus Alonso held him up so Alonso would get his promised final lap.
@Bonnet_Licker86Its been too many years to remember all the details, but something about that was mentioned by the American announcing team at the time.
@@matthewsallman1700If Leigh Diffy didn’t say it, I’d take it with a grain of salt. David Hobbs was God awful and I question how “with it” he really was and the other guy was there because he worked at Benneton the same time Schumacher was there. Couldn’t stand either of them and calling the races from a studio in America…yeah, I was doing what I could to stream ITV/BBC/Sky until ESPN got the deal.
Ultimately, Alonso decided to screw Hamilton (the pit lane blocking), then his team (the Spygate blackmail attempt on McLaren) in an attempt to get the team to control Hamilton. As Aidan suggests, all of Fernando Alonso's skullduggery probably cost him a 3rd title!!
McLaren in 2007 was just 🍿🔥 They had the championship in the bag with that car. Unfortunately there wasn't enough room for giants Hamilton and Alonso in that team.
@@scsmith4604 I guess Pirelli at Silverstone 2013 and Baku 2021. The one in Silverstone made them look so bad that they changed the tyres back to their 2012 spec, which then resulted in Red Bull and Seb's run of 9 Grand Prix wins in a row
If I remember correctly, at the Monaco post race interviews, Hamilton litteraly did the "scrubbing my middlefinger" on his cheeck pointing at Alonso. in short: gave him the middlefinger on worldwide tv.
They fitted Alonso's car with a set of used mediums, while Hamilton's lap was done with fresh softs. You can even see for yourself, as the grooved tyres from that era had a white stripe on one groove to signal the soft. And Alonso got the best time anyway.
kinda downplayed that it had already been determined that McLaren long had those 780 pages, but somehow convinced FIA to believe that McLaren hadn't done anything with it?
10:05 Looking back it’s one of the craziest penalties ever. It was an intrateam issue. They already screwed themselves over. The then the FIA adds insult to injury. At the time as a young Hamilton fanboy I think I liked the Alonso penalty though!
@@JohnSmithShields isn't there a tongue in cheek quote from Mosley which was basically he gave Ron Dennis a fine in which 5% was because of a rule break and 95% of it was because he was Ron Dennis
Spygate fine was supposedly “ten million for the offence and 90 million cos Ron Dennis is a cunt” Allegedly the exact words that came out of Mosely’s mouth in a meeting.
In the Spanish F1 broadcast, the GOAT Lobato uses to say "a mar revuelto ganancia de pescadores" which just now I know is translated as "fishermen's profit in troubled river". And I'm from south-america, and yes, I'm happy for Franco and yes, I'm terrified and desperate already for the broadcast here which is done by an all-Argentinian team whom "Crofty" has to name Fangio every race. Great channel!
David Coulthard is an underappreciated driver. Sure, He wasn't as good as Mika Hakkinen, but He and Webber laid the groundwork for Vettel to do all that winning. DC was good.
Something I've just twigged is I remember Coulthard saying about Ron's (not so) unconscious bias getting the better of him sometimes. Coulthard faced it with Mika and perhaps Alonso inherently felt that with Lewis given that he was practically part of what's now called "The Academy." It's a measure of my own distrust for Ron that when he protests that there is no No.1 driver or no team-orders, I think he's serving up some of the finest bullshit. Given we have the whole thing Priestley says about Alonso's money in brown paper envelopes as a thank you to the team - it's clear he wasn't going to have his own way.
11:18 I'm pretty sure a year or so ago Nando said he was going to release a tell-all book after he retires from F1. Whether he will actually do that remains to be seen I suppose but if he does well... I'm not much of a reader but I'd definitely buy that book!
Plato always loved a scrap. I thought he and Alain Menu were gonna come to blows in the Renault pits once. Menu had the audacity to pass him when he’d already claimed the title and Plato was fighting for second I believe.
If you want to talk about on-track altercations in NASCAR, I think Ricky Rudd vs. Dale Earnhardt, and later Rudd vs. Kevin Harvick (never dawned on me that was two drivers in the same car, 15 years apart) is closer in sentiment to what you described, although NASCAR is kind of interesting how the most infamous rivalries are generally short-lived or just a coincidence of two altercations at the same track in the span of a year or so.
Another fact about the spygate that wasn't public too much was the agreement between Ron and the FIA that the driver's point shouldn't be deducted in return of the cooperations of their drivers particularly Hamilton because he was leading the championship back then. So its pretty much Lewis lying through his teeth that he had no idea of the spygate.
And what difference does it make if Lewis Hamilton lied about knowing?? The beef was between Ron Dennis and Fernando Alonso. Stay within the narrative!! 😅
@chrisclermont456 The difference is he washed his hands clean of the issue while taking full advantage to paint his image as the victim. Much like how he lied about Trulli and making his engineer the fall guy. Yeah, I'd rather tell the facts as is rather than stick to a made up narrative. 🤣🤣🤣
I blame *Ron Dennis* for not knowing he was pairing Alonso with a generational talent. Had he given the second car to De La Rosa and shipped Lewis off to Williams for a year or two, this could have been avoided since Alonso already had a contract. But then we wouldn't have had an epic season full of drama until the last race.
Funny you should mention that - because De la Rosa was actually the origin of Spygate and the fines.... He'd gone to Ferrari to be a test driver but wasn't happy, so started emailing and texting Alonso all the setup and tyre nitrogen-filling details, along with details of teh test programmes at Ferrari. That's where, when Ron denied that the drawings had been widely circulated...it wasn't just the drawings that McLaren had deep insider knowledge of, from directly within Ferrari... This is how Nando was able to blackmail Ron, because he knew a lot more than Ron did about what and how, information had come from within Ferrari. Spygate was as much about De La Rosa as it ever was about Stepney.
Strongly believe Mclaren could not win the title in 2007, nudge nudge. Also Ron had a few clangers with driver 'harmony' like Senna/Prost and the impact of announcing Alonso so early that Montoya and Kimi 'lost' focus. Perhaps watch Sainz this year to measure ....
The mid to late 2000 cars are stunning. Especially the later. Well, at least before the wings became asymmetric. Big front, tall skinny rear. Those are awful.
Of course, Hamilton bad!! 😂😂😂 I was an Alonso fan coming into this season. I came out a Hamilton fan because skullduggery or not, Alonso had no business being consistently out driven by a rookie!! Facts!!
@AidanMillward fair play, my mistake. Another great video I'm Interested in the whole did McLaren deliberately fluff the championship situation...maybe a topic for your next video?
See, this is why F1 isn't just a traveling engineers circus; Shakespearian tragedy that I turned into a drinking game. Every time you hear "DRAMA"; drink! it makes the 'racing' and commentary bearable.
Honestly, this and Crashgate are the reason why I dislike Alonso from a certain point of view. Even if Hamilton was a dick prior to that, how pathetic do you have to be to do that to your rookie teammate without thinking about the consequences? And at Hungaroring of all places? It is also hilarious that after getting screwed over by McLaren cock-ups, Raikkonen finally won a championship thanks to a... McLaren cock-up.
Ron might have tried to appear neutral but I remember watching live, afterwards he goes over to someone connected with Alonso (wasn't he giving the timing?) and takes his headset off. Not a happy bunny. Search the live footage from ITV and a few seconds after the flag drops. JUst found it - yeah it was Alonso's trainer Ron puts his arm around and escorts him away up the pitlane. Bit cringe, as the kidz say :D
This race is one of my earliest memories of F1, i remember my dad going mental at Alonso for holding Hamilton up😂 Great video, i love your history videos, keep up the good work!
I still vaguely remember Coulthard doing his best Stone Cold Steve Austin impression and giving Schumacher the middle finger at Magny Cours mid-race 😂😂
Alonso was signed in 2006, which pushed Kimi and Montoya out later on and left Dennis with an opening to put Hamilton in. Hamilton was almost a 'because I need another driver'
Fair and square? Good laugh. Ron was throwing all against Nando already. And all for what? Lewis won a sad title next year and run to Mercedes for win in easy mode. Meanwhile Mclaren turn into shit, and all for Ron was as clumsy as stupid. In Ferrari still laugh at Ron. Kimi specially after stand many years all Ron's bullshit. By the way Max appears, sir powered by Mercedes vanish.
Spygate is also the main reason *Mercedes* decided to create their own team. Link: ruclips.net/video/Y6FLkGFMnUQ/видео.html So, ironically, even tho Lewis lost the title because of it, he ended up benefiting the most long term. Talk about a butterfly effect, huh? 😂
@@AidanMillward I look forward to finding out who's still salty in 2036, because judging by the current media, it hasn't diminished one iota so far. (For clarity, not pointed at you, obv)
@@AidanMillwardI would also be salty for years. The clash with Hamilton cost Alonso his 3rd title and probably 1 or 2 more with McLaren. The block in the pits made everything way worse for him and it's probably the ultimate reason why he lost the title. Alonso would put up a leg on Hamilton even today if a chance arises. And personally I would agree with whatever it would be. I wasn't a big fan of Alonso at that time bc he beat (my😅) Schumi. But I thought it was pretty unfair being biased towards the British driver bc they're a British Team.
@@AidanMillward I think both are pretty salty each other. I'm sure Hamilton also remember 2007 with some bitterness for what could have been and never was. They both sabotaged each other and ended losing.
Oh, the famous line-up of two drivers who, between themselves, lost 5 world titles despite having the best and the fastest car on the grid. In this case, they had a car that could come home on podium on an autopilot (M. Brundel).
@Bonnet_Licker86 It's difficult to say. Kimi was very fast when they still had traction control like in 2007, but I think he never managed to reach his old peak when it went away, and taking that spring to the head like Massa did in '09 can be one of those situations that just shreds your confidence and it never returns.
All of the ridiculous Hamilton hate and conspiracies are simply hysterical!! If he knew about Spygate, so what? The communications between DeLa Rosa and Alonso were emails in Spanish!! Nevertheless, its exposure would not benefit Hamilton. Alonso attempted to blackmail Ron Dennis. We know this. Secondly, Alonso was a 2-times World Champion who was not supposed to be getting schooled by a rookie!! Alonso initially lied to the FIA in this instance, Singapore, and most recently in Australia!! Oh, but somehow Hamilton bad for being the better of the two drivers despite being the rookie!!
Alonso was jealous that Hamilton was the far more talented driver with in the team and he hated being beaten by a rookie. At Monaco Alonso and Hamilton lapped everyone except Massa in the third placed Ferrari.
12:40 “1 million pounds for the offense, 99 million pounds for Ron Dennis being a wanker”
He actually used the C word iirc
Boy, he got off light.
@@adem1781 I always forget the exact wording but you're probably right
@KR1736 Aidan quotes it in the somewhere below.
He used language a bit fruitier than that, but pretty much.
Basically, “mine is bigger than yours” and thus, Kimi ironically took advantage of his old team that couldn’t give him reliable cars and then they get reliable cars and they still couldn’t win lol
My favourite part of that was James Allen giddily instructing Ted Kravitz to get after Alonso's personal trainer.
Then watching him get frog marched down the pit lane 😭😭😭 Ron Dennis what a legend
Lewis is why drivers are sceptical about having the reigning F2 champion as their team-mate.
Fernando is why nobody wants to move to Red Bull while Max is there.
Put the two together and you've got a shitstorm in a teapot.
Goes back a lot further than that - and the F2 thing has no relevance now. Hamilton wasn't the regining F2/GP2/F3000 champion - he was along-term McLaren protege with listerally - literally - thousands of miles of testing laps in current McLaren cars. Any current F2 champion cannot - by rule - gain that anymore. Just look at how long it took Palmer to beat magnussen, Nasr (2nd in GP2) to get to grips; even Leclerc wasn't setting the world on fire at Sauber initially. Hamilton is more comparable to Vettel - who jumped straight in at BMW-Sauber, having been a BMW-Sauber test driver for 18 months, and scored points on debut.
The problem Fernando had is that he was promised a team built around him, but there was already a long-term driver there... Same thing Vettel had at Red Bull, where he had already been with them for 8 years before making his debut in F1; instantly at home vs Webber - as was Alonso himself at Renault in 2003
Nobody moves to the hot team while their favoured driver is there, unless there's something exceptional such as Prost, insisting McLaren go get Senna (yes, really!) but people used to avoid being Fangio's teammate; Clark, Brabham, Prost, Senna, Schumacher; all drivers who many did not want to be paired with. With Lotus also it was pretty much every driver from Clark onwards as nobody felt they could run two top-line cars.
@@OsellaSquadraCorsenot to burst your bubble, but Hamilton did win the GP2 championship in 2006
I know you mentioned the alternating strategy per race week, but I seem to remember it was who got the final lap. It was Alonso's turn that week, but Hamilton manipulated the situation so that HE would get the final lap. Thus Alonso held him up so Alonso would get his promised final lap.
@Bonnet_Licker86Its been too many years to remember all the details, but something about that was mentioned by the American announcing team at the time.
@@matthewsallman1700If Leigh Diffy didn’t say it, I’d take it with a grain of salt. David Hobbs was God awful and I question how “with it” he really was and the other guy was there because he worked at Benneton the same time Schumacher was there. Couldn’t stand either of them and calling the races from a studio in America…yeah, I was doing what I could to stream ITV/BBC/Sky until ESPN got the deal.
Ultimately, Alonso decided to screw Hamilton (the pit lane blocking), then his team (the Spygate blackmail attempt on McLaren) in an attempt to get the team to control Hamilton. As Aidan suggests, all of Fernando Alonso's skullduggery probably cost him a 3rd title!!
"Elvis f1" on RUclips, gives the full context of the story. Worth a watch. Long story short, Hamilton went rogue against the team.
wasnt Q3 tho, which is important context
“The old block-o-roo” 😂 10:21
Let me tell anyone who wasn’t there, watching this unfold live in qualifying, was F1 gold 😂
McLaren in 2007 was just 🍿🔥 They had the championship in the bag with that car. Unfortunately there wasn't enough room for giants Hamilton and Alonso in that team.
The words McLaren, Ron Dennis and team-mate mutiny are surprising bedfellows.
@@heliumtrophy They can't all be Prost and Lauda, sadly.
@@michaelkitchin9665 indeed or Prost/Rosberg Snr
Being a New England Patriots fan, Spygate means something VERY different to me
Also the amount of bots already my god
Ironic thing is both events happened in the same year - well the fallout lol
At least there is not a comparison in F1 to deflated balls...or is there?
@@scsmith4604 I guess Pirelli at Silverstone 2013 and Baku 2021. The one in Silverstone made them look so bad that they changed the tyres back to their 2012 spec, which then resulted in Red Bull and Seb's run of 9 Grand Prix wins in a row
If I remember correctly, at the Monaco post race interviews, Hamilton litteraly did the "scrubbing my middlefinger" on his cheeck pointing at Alonso. in short: gave him the middlefinger on worldwide tv.
They fitted Alonso's car with a set of used mediums, while Hamilton's lap was done with fresh softs. You can even see for yourself, as the grooved tyres from that era had a white stripe on one groove to signal the soft. And Alonso got the best time anyway.
kinda downplayed that it had already been determined that McLaren long had those 780 pages, but somehow convinced FIA to believe that McLaren hadn't done anything with it?
10:05 Looking back it’s one of the craziest penalties ever. It was an intrateam issue. They already screwed themselves over. The then the FIA adds insult to injury.
At the time as a young Hamilton fanboy I think I liked the Alonso penalty though!
Rumour had it that Ron Dennis wasn't well liked by the FIA.
@@JohnSmithShields isn't there a tongue in cheek quote from Mosley which was basically he gave Ron Dennis a fine in which 5% was because of a rule break and 95% of it was because he was Ron Dennis
Spygate fine was supposedly “ten million for the offence and 90 million cos Ron Dennis is a cunt”
Allegedly the exact words that came out of Mosely’s mouth in a meeting.
@@AidanMillward thank you for the clarification.
A Splinter Cell reference in an AM video was not on today's bingo that's for damn sure
I gotta keep people on their toes.
I miss SC. I just want a remake of the original trilogy. 😔
Edit: 11:30, now a TToI reference? Yes and ho!
In the Spanish F1 broadcast, the GOAT Lobato uses to say "a mar revuelto ganancia de pescadores" which just now I know is translated as "fishermen's profit in troubled river".
And I'm from south-america, and yes, I'm happy for Franco and yes, I'm terrified and desperate already for the broadcast here which is done by an all-Argentinian team whom "Crofty" has to name Fangio every race.
Great channel!
David Coulthard is an underappreciated driver. Sure, He wasn't as good as Mika Hakkinen, but He and Webber laid the groundwork for Vettel to do all that winning. DC was good.
Something I've just twigged is I remember Coulthard saying about Ron's (not so) unconscious bias getting the better of him sometimes. Coulthard faced it with Mika and perhaps Alonso inherently felt that with Lewis given that he was practically part of what's now called "The Academy." It's a measure of my own distrust for Ron that when he protests that there is no No.1 driver or no team-orders, I think he's serving up some of the finest bullshit. Given we have the whole thing Priestley says about Alonso's money in brown paper envelopes as a thank you to the team - it's clear he wasn't going to have his own way.
I fuckin love these videos Aidan. I’m down for a 12 deep dive into McLaren 2007-2009 games
Another great video! Cheers mate 🎉 Always look forward to another F1 story time
11:18 I'm pretty sure a year or so ago Nando said he was going to release a tell-all book after he retires from F1. Whether he will actually do that remains to be seen I suppose but if he does well... I'm not much of a reader but I'd definitely buy that book!
New viewer, absolutely loving your videos!
"The Mechanic: The Secret World of the F1 Pitlane" has a great inside look at this season, from a 3rd party's point of view. Really good read too.
The writer is "Elvis F1" on RUclips. He has made a short video about the pitstop drama. Worth a watch😉
Gotta love the bots....and the humour of having them bots too.
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Nope, none of them. If only they were clever bots and slipped in the creators name or reference to one of the tags
Plato always loved a scrap. I thought he and Alain Menu were gonna come to blows in the Renault pits once.
Menu had the audacity to pass him when he’d already claimed the title and Plato was fighting for second I believe.
Plato at Muller was mad as well. Split the team right in half.
I like the scraps like Nascar where the whole pit crew get involved. Some big lads there ....
If you want to talk about on-track altercations in NASCAR, I think Ricky Rudd vs. Dale Earnhardt, and later Rudd vs. Kevin Harvick (never dawned on me that was two drivers in the same car, 15 years apart) is closer in sentiment to what you described, although NASCAR is kind of interesting how the most infamous rivalries are generally short-lived or just a coincidence of two altercations at the same track in the span of a year or so.
Another fact about the spygate that wasn't public too much was the agreement between Ron and the FIA that the driver's point shouldn't be deducted in return of the cooperations of their drivers particularly Hamilton because he was leading the championship back then. So its pretty much Lewis lying through his teeth that he had no idea of the spygate.
And what difference does it make if Lewis Hamilton lied about knowing?? The beef was between Ron Dennis and Fernando Alonso. Stay within the narrative!! 😅
@chrisclermont456 The difference is he washed his hands clean of the issue while taking full advantage to paint his image as the victim. Much like how he lied about Trulli and making his engineer the fall guy. Yeah, I'd rather tell the facts as is rather than stick to a made up narrative. 🤣🤣🤣
You’re just crying because a rookie schooled your average goat 😂😂😂😂alonslow has been a finished wet wipe since 07
I blame *Ron Dennis* for not knowing he was pairing Alonso with a generational talent. Had he given the second car to De La Rosa and shipped Lewis off to Williams for a year or two, this could have been avoided since Alonso already had a contract. But then we wouldn't have had an epic season full of drama until the last race.
Funny you should mention that - because De la Rosa was actually the origin of Spygate and the fines....
He'd gone to Ferrari to be a test driver but wasn't happy, so started emailing and texting Alonso all the setup and tyre nitrogen-filling details, along with details of teh test programmes at Ferrari.
That's where, when Ron denied that the drawings had been widely circulated...it wasn't just the drawings that McLaren had deep insider knowledge of, from directly within Ferrari... This is how Nando was able to blackmail Ron, because he knew a lot more than Ron did about what and how, information had come from within Ferrari. Spygate was as much about De La Rosa as it ever was about Stepney.
Great Stuff! Thank you.
Honourable mention to Russell giving Bottas an aggressive pat on the head 😂
Why did your old Story Time video of Spygate go private? Really wanted to show it to my family
Don't really look back fondly on 2007 season. Too much politics off track, but only half a dozen decent races on it.
Great job, Aidan. (Outside on the first lap! That must've pissed off that Spanish, er IMPORTANT DRIVER. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Strongly believe Mclaren could not win the title in 2007, nudge nudge. Also Ron had a few clangers with driver 'harmony' like Senna/Prost and the impact of announcing Alonso so early that Montoya and Kimi 'lost' focus. Perhaps watch Sainz this year to measure ....
That was a internal intense year for team McLaren
I have now watched 95% videos in the past week while building race trophies here in indy.. but when will you do a full spygate video..
The mid to late 2000 cars are stunning. Especially the later. Well, at least before the wings became asymmetric. Big front, tall skinny rear. Those are awful.
Hamilton started this whole mess by not following team orders but of course his evangelists/apologists will deny that.
And Alonso lost himself a championship by being just as petty with it but hey ho.
True@@AidanMillward
Of course, Hamilton bad!! 😂😂😂 I was an Alonso fan coming into this season. I came out a Hamilton fan because skullduggery or not, Alonso had no business being consistently out driven by a rookie!! Facts!!
Hamilton wasnt the 1st driver to reach 3 victories in 2007.
Kimi Raikkonen was at Silverstone
I didn’t say he was. I said he was the first to lead every lap of a Grand Prix.
@AidanMillward fair play, my mistake.
Another great video
I'm Interested in the whole did McLaren deliberately fluff the championship situation...maybe a topic for your next video?
See, this is why F1 isn't just a traveling engineers circus; Shakespearian tragedy that I turned into a drinking game. Every time you hear "DRAMA"; drink! it makes the 'racing' and commentary bearable.
i remember dennis holding a press conference where alonso was present, and ate a peach in a really messy way. which apparently pissed off Ron no end?!
Doesn't surprise me. Dennis is a clean freak.
Honestly, this and Crashgate are the reason why I dislike Alonso from a certain point of view. Even if Hamilton was a dick prior to that, how pathetic do you have to be to do that to your rookie teammate without thinking about the consequences? And at Hungaroring of all places?
It is also hilarious that after getting screwed over by McLaren cock-ups, Raikkonen finally won a championship thanks to a... McLaren cock-up.
excelent video
Ron might have tried to appear neutral but I remember watching live, afterwards he goes over to someone connected with Alonso (wasn't he giving the timing?) and takes his headset off. Not a happy bunny. Search the live footage from ITV and a few seconds after the flag drops.
JUst found it - yeah it was Alonso's trainer Ron puts his arm around and escorts him away up the pitlane. Bit cringe, as the kidz say :D
Ron was not neutral and he throw Mclaren into chaos.
You forgot about stroll and his trainer
No I didn’t.
This race is one of my earliest memories of F1, i remember my dad going mental at Alonso for holding Hamilton up😂 Great video, i love your history videos, keep up the good work!
Mostly it's because AJ Foyt doesn't have anything to do with formula 1 these days
Schumi x Coulthard was very promising \m/
I still vaguely remember Coulthard doing his best Stone Cold Steve Austin impression and giving Schumacher the middle finger at Magny Cours mid-race 😂😂
If Schumacher did fight Coulthard in spa 98, Schumacher would have broken his hand on the iron jaw of the scot.
I don't understand why McLaren even signed Alonso because it was clear that they favoured Hamilton heavily, all it did was cost them a drivers title
Alonso was signed in 2006, which pushed Kimi and Montoya out later on and left Dennis with an opening to put Hamilton in.
Hamilton was almost a 'because I need another driver'
Look all these ladies that love your videos lol
So Alonso psyched himself out with his own arrogance! 😂 (I appreciate his talents, but never been a massive fan because of the way he comes across)
I'd love to see an f1 driver comment on something like this. But the boring buggers never do!
We need Sting Rey Robb
There are rookies, there are rookies, then there is Lewis.
It all started at the US GP for Alonso. Remember how angry he looked on the podium after Lewis beat him fair and square?
Fair and square? Good laugh. Ron was throwing all against Nando already.
And all for what? Lewis won a sad title next year and run to Mercedes for win in easy mode.
Meanwhile Mclaren turn into shit, and all for Ron was as clumsy as stupid.
In Ferrari still laugh at Ron.
Kimi specially after stand many years all Ron's bullshit.
By the way Max appears, sir powered by Mercedes vanish.
Im so glad i don't get these bots on my videos😭😭😭
All people can do is report them. It’s a joke.
@@AidanMillward it really is
The only reason I still watch F1 is for the GigAlonso shithousery.
Don't overlook MS trying to lamp DC at Spa in 1998.
(DC usually deserved it, but it was usually MS's fault.)
One thousand and one hundred subscribers until you hit one hundred thousand subscribers.
Spygate is also the main reason *Mercedes* decided to create their own team. Link: ruclips.net/video/Y6FLkGFMnUQ/видео.html So, ironically, even tho Lewis lost the title because of it, he ended up benefiting the most long term. Talk about a butterfly effect, huh? 😂
Hamilton should have won the title in 2007
😂 but we love it
Alonso is and always has been shady. Not a fan.
conclusion?
You don't fuck with Alonso.
Alonso fucked himself with this tho.
@@AidanMillward that's one way to look at it, he could have let himself get outqualified by lewis, finished behind him and been champion
@@detectivepayne3773
yes, im absolutely on your side on that.
Fernando fucked around and found out. Then he effectively snitched to the FIA. What a pathetic man.
Hamilton won that race no?
Russell smacked Bottas in the helmet after crashing them both out at Imola ....
🔥🔥🔥🔥
So hamilton was a dick to alonso, then gets upset when alonso is a dick to him, Sounds about right
Then Alonso loses a championship as a result and remains salty about it for the next 15 years.
@@AidanMillward I look forward to finding out who's still salty in 2036, because judging by the current media, it hasn't diminished one iota so far. (For clarity, not pointed at you, obv)
@@AidanMillwardI would also be salty for years.
The clash with Hamilton cost Alonso his 3rd title and probably 1 or 2 more with McLaren.
The block in the pits made everything way worse for him and it's probably the ultimate reason why he lost the title.
Alonso would put up a leg on Hamilton even today if a chance arises.
And personally I would agree with whatever it would be.
I wasn't a big fan of Alonso at that time bc he beat (my😅) Schumi. But I thought it was pretty unfair being biased towards the British driver bc they're a British Team.
@@AidanMillward I think both are pretty salty each other. I'm sure Hamilton also remember 2007 with some bitterness for what could have been and never was. They both sabotaged each other and ended losing.
@@JoshCell_Gameplays Lewis doesn't care he has 7 championships lmao
Oh, the famous line-up of two drivers who, between themselves, lost 5 world titles despite having the best and the fastest car on the grid. In this case, they had a car that could come home on podium on an autopilot (M. Brundel).
Was gonna say, where has five come from? Cos Lewis only lost the one in 2016 and that was on reliability.
@Bonnet_Licker86 It's difficult to say. Kimi was very fast when they still had traction control like in 2007, but I think he never managed to reach his old peak when it went away, and taking that spring to the head like Massa did in '09 can be one of those situations that just shreds your confidence and it never returns.
All of the ridiculous Hamilton hate and conspiracies are simply hysterical!! If he knew about Spygate, so what? The communications between DeLa Rosa and Alonso were emails in Spanish!! Nevertheless, its exposure would not benefit Hamilton. Alonso attempted to blackmail Ron Dennis. We know this. Secondly, Alonso was a 2-times World Champion who was not supposed to be getting schooled by a rookie!! Alonso initially lied to the FIA in this instance, Singapore, and most recently in Australia!! Oh, but somehow Hamilton bad for being the better of the two drivers despite being the rookie!!
Alonso was jealous that Hamilton was the far more talented driver with in the team and he hated being beaten by a rookie. At Monaco Alonso and Hamilton lapped everyone except Massa in the third placed Ferrari.