Formula 1 BLOG

Ron Dennis of McLaren has confirmed that he and Fernando Alonso are not speaking. It looks like it all stems from a heated discussion where Alonso said he had info that could hurt McLaren and if he didn’t get treated as the top driver then maybe he would use it to hurt the team.

Ron says that Alonso later retracted this threat but from what I can see in the end it was the Alonso emails that cost the McLaren team all it’s points this year and also cost them $100 Million dollars.

It’s looking more and more to me like Fernando Alonso can’t quite deal with the fact that his team mate Lewis Hamilton may be new to F1 but has a level of skill so high that McLaren can’t legitimately put one driver before the other.

If Alonso can’t deal with both drivers being treated equally and has to resort to childish tantrums then perhaps he needs to go join a team like spyker where he can be clearly the number one driver.

Jenson Button lacks the spark that makes a world champion according to Mike Gascoyne, Spyker’s technical boss. Gascoyne points out that Button, in his seven seasons of Formula One has won only a single race.

Is it because Jenson has never had the car under him and the team behind him to get to the podium or is Mr. Gascoyne correct that he just lacks that extra spark that makes a champion?

So what is it folks? Lack of Skill or Spark on Jenson Buttons part or has he just been let down over the years by his teams?