There is no way we can allow Fernando to leave - Alonso, a great champion - just because of the circumstances. That’s not the way to leave the stage," said Ben Sulayem.
"He has to be successful and then he leaves whenever he wants, not because he was forced to leave because of the performance.
@GeneralEmergency@bob they seem to use the proper channels, yes. The fact that the FIA president is quite publicly open about supporting his favourite driver (remember when he had the stewards withdraw a penalty against Alonso?) is weird though. Of course, there have been FIA presidents who favored a certain team on the grid before, though.
Kinda Yikes™ you read it that way.
Eh? You don’t think this is a worrying comment?
No. Just seems like standard pr.
If they’re going through the proper channels I don’t see the issue.
@GeneralEmergency @bob they seem to use the proper channels, yes. The fact that the FIA president is quite publicly open about supporting his favourite driver (remember when he had the stewards withdraw a penalty against Alonso?) is weird though. Of course, there have been FIA presidents who favored a certain team on the grid before, though.
You mean that rumour that came out of nowhere and went nowhere?
Do you think Pirelli gave Maldonado better tyres than the rest of the grid, just because there was a rumour?
All this is, is trying to give Honda extra avenues to catch up. It’s not new.