Oh dear, Fernando Alonso did not make my Top Ten and that is because he is a wuss and Formula One should have no place for such people. I had been a fan since his days at Minardi, and have the text to prove it. but he has turned girlie.
At the top of his game, Alonso has been superb, but he has also been a big girl's blouse. Hamilton committed no infringement at Valencia, the safety car was within the white line when he overtook it, you can check that on YouTube.
Either there is a rule about the white line or there is not. Hamilton obeyed the rule, as did McLaren, while Alonso threw his toys out of the pram. That was the point when he lost the World Championship, it had nothing to do with Petrov at Abu Dhabi, who was only defending his position.
Hamilton did not infringe the rules, his drive-through penalty, which was down-right wrong, robbed him of a chance to challenge for a win. This was a political thing. We must not upset Ferrari, the provider of motoring bling to the funny-money classes.
Alonso then lost it, because he is a wuss. He allowed his Ferrari to be overtaken by a Sauber on the last corner and it was a home Grand Prix. He is the highest paid driver in F1, by a long way, and he used that to deny Massa his win at Hockenheim which was a year to the day since Felipe had suffered an accident which threatened his life.
In Abu Dhabi, Alonso could not pass a driver in his rookie year who was fighting for position and, maybe, a seat for 2011. Petrov had every right to fight for his place, Alonso did not have the gonads to take it from him and hardly made an attempt. Afterwards, the big girl's blouse gestured at Petrov and then lacked the balls to admit that he had done what hundreds of millions of viewers had seen him do.
Ferrari is happy to employ a wuss, but a wuss has no place in my Top Ten.
