Wow, Sky really showed it's bullshittery today. Their reporting has been going downhill for the last two seasons, but this one takes the cake and we are not even two full races into it. Ted, for most of the time, has no idea what he is talking about, Crofty ... I have no words, and then Herbert comes out with some cr** like this.
And I am not even that big of a fan of Alonso, Kimi all the way, but you have got to give credit where credit is due.
The man is a machine on sundays and he always gives his best. Even with not the best of a car, or arguably even second best, he was always there at the last race to fight for the championship. And when you read something like this:
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24184/ ... ny-herbert
It just saddens you. Well, at first it saddens you, but then you give it a bit of a thought, and then you remember "Oh yea, It's Sky" and you really aren't that surprised anymore.
I could probably contradict everything that Herbert said, (about Alonsos lack of hunger for being the best of the best, loosing his reflex speed........), but it is this, that kinda rocked my boat:
"He's commented that he'd be happy to leave F1 with two world championships - that is a man who has not just given up the chance of winning another, but that effectively is giving up on racing."
That is so way out of context, that I can write elephant, yellow, circle, my dogs name is Indy, but he is actually a cat, and it makes just as much sense.
Herbert was amazed that Alonso did not fight harder to drive in Bahrain after the doctors declared him unfit.
"He doesn't like these new cars which is another reason for him to quit," the Sky Sports F1 pundit said.
"He had the incident in Barcelona and he didn't go racing, but when a driver has an accident usually they want to get back in the car - when I crashed I told everyone I wanted to get back in the car. But even with his crash in Australia we still didn't get that."
Alonso came to Bahrain, hoping he will pass the medical examinations. He did not.
He could hold his breath until his face turned a shade of bluish-purple, while he stood on one leg, jumping in a circle and then started playing Heart Of Gold by Neil Young on the harmonica, and he still wouldn't be allowed to race.
You don't pass the physical, you don't get to race. Period Ende Finito.
That's how it is today.
But, not to be too harsh on Johnny, he probably just blurted some stuff out, without thinking, which he rarely does lately...
Oh, and my cats name really is Indy. He says Hi!
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