Now Alonso's having at go at Fisichella...

[GarrettMacD]

First it was the FIA (justifiably), then Schumacher, then the Renault team, now his team mate...
Who's next, I wonder???

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Alonso angered by team-mate's tactics
World champion Fernando Alonso has voiced his dissatisfaction with Renault team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella, questioning the Italian's actions during his defeat to Michael Schumacher at last weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.

Alonso was leading the way in the early stages of the race before a tyre problem saw both Fisichella and championship rival Schumacher sweep past the 26-year-old as his pace slowed markedly. Schumacher went on to win for the fifth time in seven races and draw level on 116 points with Alonso in the standings, although the Spaniard recovered to finish second.

"What I felt was that maybe I had a problem with the car for nine or 10 laps and I felt alone, for sure," said Alonso. "I was first and my team-mate was second and they came to me, they overtook me and they were gone. When I recovered the pace they were gone."

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[GarrettMacD]

I think I must be reading behind the lines a bit too much.

1) When Alonso says "I felt a bit alone really", that, to me, is a dig at Fisi for not playing the team game, further exacerbated when he said...

2) "They just disappeared", which to me suggests that as soon as they saw Alonso in trouble both Fisi and Schumacher put the hammer down as they could both smell a victory. If Fisi had got to the front and stayed there, and MS was in P2 Renault would not have asked Fisi to concede ground to let Alonso get into P2 and let MS win, as it would have meant less constructors points (14 vs 16).

However, this is all just conjecture. The REAL reason Alonso is pissed-off is because Fisichella made such an arse of his first lap on the slicks, letting MS by at the first corner after his pitstop. I assume the Renault strategy was to get Fisi out ahead of MS, then get Fisi to hold MS up whilst Alonso made ground in the final stages so that Alonso would take P2 from MS and then be gifted P1 by Fisi. That would have meant Alonso pulling out another 4 points on MS, as opposed to the current all-square situation.