Alonso's face turns red after Vettel 'crashgate' joke

**jocaranz** · 27th September 2010, 12:21

What is it with these other drivers, when they cant win they always in some way criticize alonso.
I never heard alonso make such negative comments during post race interview. I heard once when Lewser deliberately overtake the SC but that was not pinpointing and not on post race interview and Lewser deserved to be commented on that instance.

**Hermann** · 27th September 2010, 12:26

Originally Posted by jocaranz

What is it with these other drivers, when they cant win they always in some way criticize alonso.
I never heard alonso make such negative comments during post race interview. I heard once when Lewser deliberately overtake the SC but that was not pinpointing and not on post race interview and Lewser deserved to be commented on that instance.

Pity comes without charge, envy wants to be earned.

**jocaranz** · 27th September 2010, 12:56

ehehe good point sir^^

**Rosso Corsa** · 27th September 2010, 13:19

It's just a bit of harmless banter

Alonso did his "quit your yapping" hand gestures on the slow down lap. That's 1 - 1

**Hermann** · 27th September 2010, 13:31

Originally Posted by Rosso Corsa

It's just a bit of harmless banter

Alonso did his "quit your yapping" hand gestures on the slow down lap. That's 1 - 1

Which 'hand gestures' do you mean?

**Rosso Corsa** · 27th September 2010, 13:48

The hand gestures that look like hand puppets talking. That's how I interpret them anyway.

**Hermann** · 27th September 2010, 13:55

Originally Posted by Rosso Corsa

The hand gestures that look like hand puppets talking. That's how I interpret them anyway.

Oh that. Fernando does this when he wins a race to greet his folks at home who are watching him on the TV. Its a gesture from the 'chicken dance'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKtTgQbzOg

**jocaranz** · 27th September 2010, 14:16

Originally Posted by Rosso Corsa

It's just a bit of harmless banter

Alonso did his "quit your yapping" hand gestures on the slow down lap. That's 1 - 1

hahaha i like your interpretation

**Hermann** · 27th September 2010, 14:18

Originally Posted by jocaranz

hahaha i like your interpretation

Yes, funny but wrong.

**Rosso Corsa** · 27th September 2010, 15:36

Nah. One hand was chicken dance, the other "quit yer yappin"

I'm trying to remember a time that Alonso got involved in banter, or practical jokes. Can't think of any.

**NJB13** · 27th September 2010, 15:44

Originally Posted by jocaranz

hahaha i like your interpretation

Originally Posted by Hermann

Yes, funny but wrong.

That's what I thought it was too, can you enlighten us Herm?

**Hermann** · 27th September 2010, 15:54

Originally Posted by NJB13

That's what I thought it was too, can you enlighten us Herm?

I think i just did? Look at my posting #37.

Hermy- Herm- its getting funnier the minute. Never mind, i kind of like it!

**Alessandra** · 27th September 2010, 16:07

Vettel seems a perfectly nice kid and he certainly has talent, but the words that come out of his mouth are no more 'naive' than were Hamilton's in '07. I have never found the claim of a 22 year old very credible to have a programme that was (a) in a foreign language (English) and (b) was popular a generation before his birth (Monty Python), as his entertainment of choice.

It's all part of the ingratiating process with the foreign, esp. the British, media that some young drivers are trained in nowadays. It's not god enough for them to be brilliant drivers, they have to be pretty and funny and clever and a bit naughty - but nicely so, like getting 'horny' mixed up with........well, whatever it was supposed to be confused with.

Call me an old cynic, but neither the "horny" nor the '08 Singapore references was a slip of the tongue or a 'youngster' audaciously joshing a respected double champion. But, one made no real sense in either English or German and the other didn't deflect Alonso from his main purpose, so that's alright