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I am just speculating, but it looked to me that Renault gave Fissico the win in Malasya. Fernando coulda won on a 1 stop strategy, but he was made to do two stops. He didn't need tires 5 laps from the end or whatever it was.
If they'd taken him to 1/2 race on his original fuel he would have won with 1 stop.
Did they do this because he's going to McLaren next year and Renault would rather have Fissi win???
I think Fernando's tires would not last for the whole stinct on a one stop statergy.
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It certainly looked that way Inside Line. I'd love to see Fissi give Alonso a real run for his money but I just don't think it's going to happen I'm afraid.
Briatore feels betrayed by Alonso's signing to McLaren. He makes it no secret his dislike for Ron Dennis, and although publicy will never say anything negative about Alonso as long as he is with Renault, I'm sure Briatore "wishes" that at the end of the season it is Fisi with the title, and Alonso second.
We will always have to wonder and speculate just how much of it was a "mistake" in the refuelling rig when Alonso went out for the final qualifying session with excess fuel.
i doubt renault will risk pulling off a move like this. i think its just because of the mistake and a flawless performance by fisi that got him the win. Hopefully this will give fisi more confidence and fight for wins more often..
i was thinking along the same lines, there was something about it. as much as i want fisi to beat alonso i had a feeling that they let fisi have that one. bit like massa and schuey, i'd say schuey let massa have that position...
Well as I too have been pondering this, I have to believe that the fuel rig was no accident. Why in the world would renault want to see that number 1 on a mclaren if they did not earn it. On a level playing field, fisi could not beat alonso, but with the team behind him, well thats differant. Australia will say alot.
I don't believe Renault would skew the race result...it's too risky. This will probably be a very tight championship and frankly their best shot is with Alonso over a whole season. What if Fisi folded under the kind of pressure MS & KR could put on him???
Number one on a McLaren next year??? Not an issue, all the Renault marketing would show the Renault as the championship car - who really sees the car numbers these days?
RH1300S wrote:I don't believe Renault would skew the race result...it's too risky. This will probably be a very tight championship and frankly their best shot is with Alonso over a whole season. What if Fisi folded under the kind of pressure MS & KR could put on him???
Number one on a McLaren next year??? Not an issue, all the Renault marketing would show the Renault as the championship car - who really sees the car numbers these days?
Not that Fisi doesn't deserve it, I have always believed in him as a top rank, quality driver. But let's just assume for the sake of argument, that things are a little more difficult and complex for Alonso to win......
rsfocus wrote:i was thinking along the same lines, there was something about it. as much as i want fisi to beat alonso i had a feeling that they let fisi have that one. bit like massa and schuey, i'd say schuey let massa have that position...
shuey let massa take the position!! not true.. shuey had a problem in the second stint.. i doubt shumacher will ever let massa take the position!
I don't think Renault would risk so much by purposefully keeping Alonso behind Fisico. Certainly not at the beginning of the season when there is everything to play for. After all they have both the drivers and constructors championship to play for. As far the drivers championship goes, I think Alonso is their best chance.
would the renault even have the fuel capacity to do a one stopper.. never mind the tyres lasting that long if they weren't running this strategy from the outset...
unlikely that something like position fixing would happen in those circumstances, too many risks, and they are meant to be professionals about the situation...
If you believe that all the problems Fisichella had last year were premeditated then you can believe that what happened to Alonso was premeditated, but I don’t think so.
Nevertheless we have to notice one thing, “premeditated” and “related to the fact that both cars don’t receive the same level of attentions” are very different things.
It’s indubitable that in 2005 Fisichella car didn’t receive the same attention of details as Alonso one.
For example be assured that last year Alonso had the best mechanics, best engineers etc etc available in the team, just logical since he was already in the team the previous years. It’s evident that to have better people working on the car reduces the risk of mistakes; it’s the same story at each level of motorsport, from lower series up to formula 1 and has nothing to do with the team favouring a driver over the other one. As much as you try to make everything equal between the two teams working on the two cars, it’s obvious that some of the people will be better than others, the driver already in the team knows it and will ask for the best ones to work on his car. That’s one of the several reasons making the first year in a new team a very difficult one for any driver and also one of the reasons explaining why ALL the drivers and in particular the very good ones, are reluctant to have in the same team another good driver, another prima donna. It isn’t fear of resulting slower (a driver afraid of that should instantly retire), it’s simply that they want absolute focus, the best resources of the whole team behind them, they know they deserve it because they are going to do the best for the team and want the team to do the best for them, nothing less than it. All the driver are arrogant egocentric s.o.b. when the matter is the equipment, the work with the team, anything related with racing. It’s a conditio sine qua non, show me a driver who doesn’t fit that profile, a driver you would define as “nice”, and I’ll show you a loser.
Hmmm... what was the topic about ? Problems with Alonso car ? Oh yes, well, it would be interesting to know if for 2006 there was between the two cars a different distribution of human resources compared with last year.
Renault the WCC and WDC car next year? 
