Alonso to Ferrari?
Discussion
You know I'm beginning to think that if I were RD I would fight to keep him to his contract. Then you could at least experience the apparent deprivations of the wrong end of the pit lane and it would be better than having him in opposition with a big budget team.
Plus he might feel the need to win another title and have no wish to waste a year not trying to.
Of course if one takes his '3 titles and I will retire' statement (assuming he made actually it) the above plan may not be workable should he succeed this year.
When one considers coldly what involvement the drivers are reported to have had with the Stepneygate thing - which actually is not much when it comes down to it - I can imagine that the internal situation, especially with PdeLaR, may not be quite what it seems at first glance. And if one takes that further one might imagine that PdlR simply wanted to do what you was contracted as an agent to do, as well as try to ensure he had a future role to pay the rent. Keeping FA happy may have seemed like part of that role.
For his part FA merely responds to the information being fed to him (so far as I can tell from what I have read) in the first instance. During the Hungary fiasco he boils over out of frustration, with the FIA being partly instrumental in that by their rather odd penalty. He flips, regrets it because he really has very little to threaten with and withdraws the comments. Too late. RD has started to open the can of worms. Mosley suggests to RD that it can be forgotten, nothing to follow up but then seems to have come to the conclusion that maybe he can work something by threatening the drivers with removal of their Super Licence - their extremely good ticket to powerful earnings.
Suddenly Alonso finds himself sucked in to a problem that is really of his own making but the basis of which he would probably have thought was the result of pit lane socialising or some other exchange. Which it was perhaps, but maybe not the sort of thing he imagined. So how is he to react to that? Natural instinct may be to distance himself from the problem which he does. Protect brand Alonso at any cost.
PdlR feels threatened enough to have to travel around Europe to dig up the mails - possibly in the hope of showing that they sound more incrimination than they truly are?
In all of this Mosley has realised that it is almost impossible to prove incontrovertable innocence and that he has an opportunity to show who is boss. Especially if he allows RD to think that his (MM's) advice to forget about the Hungary report was still the current advice from the FIA.
Suddenly it all changes and McL have a week in which to obtain evidence of innocence - for which concept see my previous observation.
I think RD would need at least $150 million to allow FA to go to Ferrari. Under the circumstances it would be the only reasonable offer that the Red team could make to justify their interest in someone they have accused of cheating against them. I think I read that FA has 2 years to go on his contract. $75 million a year would seem to be about right. Paid in advance of course.
Plus he might feel the need to win another title and have no wish to waste a year not trying to.
Of course if one takes his '3 titles and I will retire' statement (assuming he made actually it) the above plan may not be workable should he succeed this year.
When one considers coldly what involvement the drivers are reported to have had with the Stepneygate thing - which actually is not much when it comes down to it - I can imagine that the internal situation, especially with PdeLaR, may not be quite what it seems at first glance. And if one takes that further one might imagine that PdlR simply wanted to do what you was contracted as an agent to do, as well as try to ensure he had a future role to pay the rent. Keeping FA happy may have seemed like part of that role.
For his part FA merely responds to the information being fed to him (so far as I can tell from what I have read) in the first instance. During the Hungary fiasco he boils over out of frustration, with the FIA being partly instrumental in that by their rather odd penalty. He flips, regrets it because he really has very little to threaten with and withdraws the comments. Too late. RD has started to open the can of worms. Mosley suggests to RD that it can be forgotten, nothing to follow up but then seems to have come to the conclusion that maybe he can work something by threatening the drivers with removal of their Super Licence - their extremely good ticket to powerful earnings.
Suddenly Alonso finds himself sucked in to a problem that is really of his own making but the basis of which he would probably have thought was the result of pit lane socialising or some other exchange. Which it was perhaps, but maybe not the sort of thing he imagined. So how is he to react to that? Natural instinct may be to distance himself from the problem which he does. Protect brand Alonso at any cost.
PdlR feels threatened enough to have to travel around Europe to dig up the mails - possibly in the hope of showing that they sound more incrimination than they truly are?
In all of this Mosley has realised that it is almost impossible to prove incontrovertable innocence and that he has an opportunity to show who is boss. Especially if he allows RD to think that his (MM's) advice to forget about the Hungary report was still the current advice from the FIA.
Suddenly it all changes and McL have a week in which to obtain evidence of innocence - for which concept see my previous observation.
I think RD would need at least $150 million to allow FA to go to Ferrari. Under the circumstances it would be the only reasonable offer that the Red team could make to justify their interest in someone they have accused of cheating against them. I think I read that FA has 2 years to go on his contract. $75 million a year would seem to be about right. Paid in advance of course.
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