Anyone here want to win a WDC?

Take the lead from Fred Alonso and rally the troops. :rolleyes: This seems like the best way to get the pitstops faster for the next two critical races.

http://www.planet-f1.com/News/Story_...566627,00.html

Is he related to Whiney Gordon?

Well he did lose the lead in both Sunday's Shanghai race and the Drivers' Championship, so can't blame the guy for being pissed! ::Rant::

That sux for Alonso. His accusations seem substantiated. Everyone must want Schumacher to go out on top.

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Ive been waiting for someone to comment on it. I figured it would be a comment like demented or sick. But hey I'll take compliments too. :D

Here is this complete interview in Spanish. Apparently some of the quotes were taken out of context. Surprise surprise. Can anyone translate this and see if that is true?

Es un poco triste ser el mejor durante todo el fin de semana y terminar el segundo al final.
SÃ*, pero bueno, a veces las cosas salen asÃ*. Éramos los más rápidos en agua y los más veloces en seco, pero tuvimos cuarenta vueltas de la carrera que ni una cosa ni otra, justo lo que favorecÃ*a a Bridgestone. Quizá la ventaja del principio hubiera sido suficiente si hubiéramos dejado los neumáticos delanteros puestos en la primera parada, pero también estaban casi lisos, y por razones de seguridad y con la ventaja que tenÃ*a no parecÃ*a demasiado arriesgado cambiarlos y perder algunos segundos hasta encontrar la adherencia.

¿Está, entonces, de acuerdo con la decisión que tomó la escuderÃ*a de cambiar los neumáticos delanteros?
SÃ*, sÃ*. Teniendo veinte segundos de ventaja quién pensaba que se iba a perder tan rápido. Normalmente, en seco el tiempo de crisis sólo dura tres o cuatro vueltas. Esta vez fueron diez. Visto con perspectiva, la mejor opción hubiera sido no cambiar esos neumáticos, pero en ese momento no era tan malo.

DÃ*game cómo se siente
Es una mezcla de sensaciones. Estoy contento porque de no ganar la carrera limitar los daños es quedar segundo y empatar en el Mundial. Pero es una oportunidad muy buena que no hemos podido coger esta vez. ¿Vencedor moral? No importa cómo me sienta, es Michael quien ha ganado.

Sufrió otro fallo en el repostaje con la tuerca en la segunda parada. ¿Fue el mismo mecánico de HungrÃ*a? ¿No le resulta sorprendente que vuelva a pasar un suceso asÃ*?
No sé, no creo. Van cambiándolo de posición para que estén siempre al cien por cien. Y mira, estas cosas pasan. La verdad es que la diferencia era demasiado grande y no creo que haya tenido al final tanta influencia.

¿Esos once segundos le han costado el triunfo?
No creo. Pienso que Michael no arriesgó nada. Si hubiera salido más cerca de él habrÃ*a tirado sin problemas.

¿Piensa que Giancarlo Fisichella le ha ayudado?
No.

Hasta llegó a adelantarle...
Me pasó y se fueron diez segundos los dos. Eso sÃ* que fue decisivo, lo del pit stop una vez le pasa a unos y otra a otros. Pero bueno, yo estaba demasiado lejos de Michael porque no habÃ*a forma de pararle.

¿Se imagina a Massa intentando adelantar a Michael Schumacher?
Tampoco, pero bueno, no es nada que no sepa.

¿No arriesgó demasiado al final de la carrera?
SÃ*, sÃ* que arriesgué. Bajamos las revoluciones de todas maneras porque pensábamos que Michael lo habÃ*a hecho también. En estas condiciones tan frÃ*as los neumáticos iban mejor e intentaba tirar al máximo para ponerle un poco de presión. Con cualquier doblado o lo que sea podÃ*a tener una oportunidad, pero al final no ha sido asÃ*.

¿Cómo ve ahora el Mundial?
Está difÃ*cil. Más o menos igual que el viernes, quien gane más carreras será el campeón. Estamos igualados a puntos y quien lo haga mejor ganará.

¿Está animado?
Con mucha moral. Pero tengo que luchar contra muchos factores, y a veces no puedes con todos.

¿No tenÃ*a que haber entrado algunas vueltas antes a cambiar a seco?
No, creo que estaba incluso al lÃ*mite. Ellos esperaron cuatro o cinco vueltas más y les fue bien también.

Massa las probó primero
Y yo se las probé al otro (se rÃ*e).

¿Cree que su equipo pensó más en el Mundial de constructores?
No hay duda. Ellos prefieren ser segundo y tercero que otra cosa. Vieron catorce puntos y da igual el orden.

¿Se puede confiar en la victoria en las dos últimas carreras con un equipo que comete estos errores?
No comete errores. Esto de los repostajes unas veces sale bien y otras mal. La mala suerte es que sea precisamente ahora en momentos claves, pero sólo he sufrido algo asÃ* un par de veces en todos estos años. Lo difÃ*cil es luchar contra todo.

Parece que el equipo tiene un aire triste...
Algunos, otros están muy alegres porque adelantamos a Ferrari en el Mundial de constructores y asÃ* igual no me llevo el número uno a ningún otro equipo.

¿Le presiona saber que Schumacher podrÃ*a proclamarse campeón en Japón si usted abandona?
No, pero seguimos perdiendo puntos y el equipo tampoco está ayudándome del todo. Están más preocupados por el tÃ*tulo de constructores.

Los aficionados van a tener emoción hasta el final. Lo siento por usted
SÃ*, sÃ*. Sigo estando confiado. AquÃ* fuimos más rápidos en agua y en seco y hay que seguir trabajando en esta lÃ*nea. Si seguimos asÃ*, alguna vez las condiciones nos ayudarán.

Con todo lo que ha pasado este año parece un milagro que llegue empatado a las dos últimas carreras.
Un milagro, sÃ*...

Here's a rough translation...

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He is a little sad to be best throughout the weekend and to finish the second in the end.
, but yes good, sometimes the things leave thus. We were fastest in water and quickest in dry, but we had forty returns of the race that neither a thing nor another one, right what favored to Bridgestone. Perhaps the advantage of the principle had been sufficient if we had left the put front tires in the first shutdown, but also were almost smooth, and for reasons of security and with the advantage that it had it did not seem too dangerous to change them and to lose some seconds until finding the adhesion.

It is, then, in agreement with the decision that took escudería to change the front tires?
Yes, yes. Having twenty seconds of advantage who thought that it was going away to lose so fast. , in normally dry the time of only hard crisis three or four returns. This time they were ten. Sight with perspective, the best option had been not to change those tires, but then he was not so bad.

Dígame how one feels
It is a mixture of sensations. I am contented because of not gaining the race to limit the damages it is to be second and to tie in the World-wide one. But it is a very good opportunity that we have not been able to take this time. Moral winner? He does not matter how he feels to me, is Michael who has won.

He underwent another failure in the re-fuelling with the nut in the second shutdown. He was the same mechanic of Hungary? He is not to him surprising that returns to pass an event thus?
I do not know, I do not create. They are changing it of position so that they are always to the one hundred percent. And it watches, these things happen. The truth is that the difference was too great and I do not believe that has had in the end as much influence.

Those eleven seconds him have cost the triumph?
I do not create. I think that Michael did not risk anything. If he had left more near him he would have thrown without problems.

It thinks that Giancar it Fisichella it has helped him?
No.

Until it got to advance to him...
It happened to me and ten seconds went away both. That yes that was decisive, the one of pit stop to once happens him to and a other to others. But good, I was too much far from Michael because there was no form to stop to him.

One imagines to Massa trying to advance to Michael Schumacher?
Either, but good, he is not nothing that does not know.

He did not risk too much at the end of the race?
Yes, yes that I risked. We lowered the revolutions of all ways because we thought that Michael had also done it. In these conditions so you cold the tires went better and tried to throw to the maximum to put a little to him pressure. With any dubbing or what is could have an opportunity, but it has in the end not been thus.

How it sees now the World-wide one?
It is difficult. More or less just as Friday, that gains more races will be the champion. We are even to points and that do it better it will win.

It is animated?
With much moral. But I must fight against many factors, and sometimes you cannot with all.

It must not have entered some returns before to change dry?
No, I believe that it was even to the limit. They waited for four or five returns and were to them more well also.

Massa proved them first
And I proved them to the other (she es ***reflx mng herself).

Think that its equipment thought more about the World-wide one of constructors?
There is no doubt. They prefer to be second and third that another thing. They saw fourteen points and issues equal the order.

It is possible to be trusted the victory in the two last races with an equipment that commits these errors?
He does not commit errors. This of the re-fuellings times comes out well and other badly. The bad luck is that it is indeed now at key moments, but I have only undergone something therefore a pair of times in all these years. The difficult thing is to fight against everything.

It seems that the equipment has a sad air...
Some, others are very glad because we advanced to Ferrari in the World-wide one of constructors and thus equal I do not take number one to no other equipment.

It presses knowledge to him that Schumacher could proclaim champion in Japan if you leave?
No, but we continued losing points and the equipment is not helping me either absolutely. More they are worried about the title of constructors.

The fans are going to have emotion until the end. I feel it by you
Yes, yes. I continue being trusted. Here we were faster in water and dry and is necessary to continue working in this line. If we followed thus, sometimes the conditions will help us.

What it has spent east year yet it seems a miracle that arrives tied at the two last races.
A miracle, yes...

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