Grand Prix

It's been a while since I've written an Editor's Desk, but unfortunately it was something Fernando Alonso said recently triggered this one.

I am not asking Alonso to badmouth Stroll but at least go back to saying things as he sees them, and perhaps as most interpret them in this case and that is: No! He couldn’t even convincingly beat an over-the-hill Sebastian Vettel over their two seasons at Aston Martin. Lance Stroll is not a future F1 Champion, and add to that what he did in Austin was not a racing incident and deserved a race ban. But recently, Alonso in an interview on Aston Martin’s official website said of his new teammate: “In Lance, the team has a driver who is super young, super talented and has the possibility to be World Champion.” With that settled, my gripe here is regarding another part of Alonso’s persona, and while some might jump to his controversial character and his “unhealthy” antics within a team in the manner he plays the intra-team politics and mind games, that is not the case. Alonso has an abundance of natural talent, and immense race craft, while his tenacity is second to none, and now at 41 years of age is still operating at a very high level since he made his debut in F1 in 2001 as he shortly managed to dethrone the great Michael Schumacher in 2005 and 2006.