n smikle wrote:I won't be surprised if they have not offered personal assistants to wipe his bum for him.
In all fairness Ferrari's been responsible for a lot of turds recently, and Alonso has done an admirable job with them over the last few years.
I think Alonso wanted (out of McLaren, obviously) to get in red, and succeed, and do well for a few years, then go out from the highest team. Obviously his time in red has been a huge disappointment, and while this does indeed suck, it means when he's negotiating contracts, he can bring up:
A) Destroying Raikonen, the last Ferrari champion and a known quantity to the team.
B) Being the lone superstar that's been dragging bright red dump trucks up the grid and onto the podium, FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS
$50m is just him testing the boundaries of his leverage, partly (at least) out of frustration.