Alonso fans and Hamilton haters will say it was Lewis's 'team' and he got preferrential treatment. Hamilton fans and Alonso haters will say it was all down to Alonso's ego getting the better of him and he then tried to blackmail McLaren into giving him no.1 status when re realised he couldn't beat a rookie fair and square. No one actually knows what went on. We can type what we want, provide refrences, articles etc etc that all say what we want, depending on who's side you are on. Ultimately, McLaren lost the WDC by 1 point. Which driver should have won the title is irrelevant. Both could have won it at the last race (although more is made of Hamilton's failure to do so). Neither did win it.
I cringe every time 2007 comes up... It was a great season on track but a bloody lousy year for the sport. The Alonso/Hamilton spat was nothing more than 2 highly competitive drivers with heaps of talent and even bigger egos battling to be the alpha in the team. I don't buy that the team favored either driver. They are both incredibly talented drivers so you would expect them to compete on a similar level. What was more upsetting during those times and continuing up to crash-gate was the hidden agendas (though not so well hidden) to run certain people out of the sport. Max was on a warpath... he had his nose in everywhere, forever in the press voicing his upset at one thing or another and looking like he was trying to enginneer crisis to justify staying in control. A few seasons were dominated by politics rather than racing... I'm glad things are calmer on that side of things since Todt took over.
+1 If there is any sense on this board this thread will be closed now before it gets out of hand. Nothing ever comes good out of 'discussing' 2007. There is nothing new that can be brought to the table. It will be the same old 'Lewis did that', 'Alonso should have been bigger than that', 'Ron's baby', 'Alonso is a baby' etc etc etc The two sides will never agree. Alonso and Hamilton are over it so lets follow thier example and forget about it.
You would have thought by that point the McLaren lawyers would of had plenty of practice with FIA legislation.
Even with the benefit of reading the post Jacky put up, I got the feeling they would have lost regardless! Max wanted to make an example of Ron and McLaren. It was his last stand. If only Whiplash-gate came out in 2007. Wonder if he would have been a bit more laidback (excuse the pun) about the whole McLaren/spygate issue.............
