CONSPIRACY THEORY 1
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes will not finish the Brazilian Grand Prix tomorrow, leaving teammate Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to fight it out for the world drivers' championship.
Why will he not finish? Because somebody's going to take him out – to wreck him on purpose.
This season has been one of the nastiest in the history of F1. There is an ocean of bad blood out there. Everybody hates everybody else.
Ferrari hates McLaren (more about that in a minute). McLaren hates Ferrari back. But McLaren (Ron Dennis) also hates the FIA (Max Mosley) and vice versa.
I don't know if Alonso hates teammate Hamilton but he sure doesn't like him. I can't say Hamilton hates Alonso, but I betcha Hamilton's daddy does.
Raikkonen doesn't hate anybody because he seems to be oblivious to just about everything going on around him. At least, he sure gives you that impression, doesn't he?
But Ferrari. Now, that's a prancing horse of a different colour. Throughout this whole year, from the "movable floor" protest in Australia (orchestrated by McLaren) through "Stepneygate" (passing on of Ferrari technical secrets to McLaren), Ferrari has been left holding the short end of the stick and very much feels like the aggrieved party.
They are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore.
So there is no way the Scuderia is going to sit back tomorrow (TSN, 11:30 a.m.) and let a rookie driver – a McLaren rookie driver – win the world driving championship. A two-time world champion who happens to drive for McLaren might be palatable. But not a rookie.
This sort of frontier justice thing has happened before.
In 1990 at Suzuka, Ayrton Senna was leading the championship; Alain Prost was his only challenger. They had a history. Although they eventually became close friends, at that moment on that day in that year in Japan they were bitter enemies.
They were one-two on the grid and when the lights went out, they went ripping toward turn one and when they got there Senna ran Prost right off the road and into a gravel trap. Senna was stuck in there with him but it didn't matter.
Mission accomplished. End of story.
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is the only one of the top four not in the championship hunt. And Ferrari rewarded him this week for his loyalty and hard work by extending his contract through the 2010 season.
Use your imagination. And remember: You Read It Here First.
CONSPIRACY THEORY 2
I'll tell you why all the open-wheel drivers are going to NASCAR.
It's a stealth operation being orchestrated by Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi and they're planning to take over.
As they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Then make 'em do things your way.
So Dario Franchitti, Jacques Villeneuve, A.J. Allmendinger, Patrick Carpentier, Sam Hornish, Buddy Lazier and Juan Montoya (soon to be joined by Scott Speed, Andrew Ranger and who knows how many others) are just the first wave.
There will be others.
And then, when all 43 stock car racers are all open-wheelers, do you know what they're going to do with the Car of Tomorrow?
They're going to take off the roof and the fenders (it already has a wing) and ... voilà!
Mission accomplished. And remember: You Read It Here First.
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes will not finish the Brazilian Grand Prix tomorrow, leaving teammate Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to fight it out for the world drivers' championship.
Why will he not finish? Because somebody's going to take him out – to wreck him on purpose.
This season has been one of the nastiest in the history of F1. There is an ocean of bad blood out there. Everybody hates everybody else.
Ferrari hates McLaren (more about that in a minute). McLaren hates Ferrari back. But McLaren (Ron Dennis) also hates the FIA (Max Mosley) and vice versa.
I don't know if Alonso hates teammate Hamilton but he sure doesn't like him. I can't say Hamilton hates Alonso, but I betcha Hamilton's daddy does.
Raikkonen doesn't hate anybody because he seems to be oblivious to just about everything going on around him. At least, he sure gives you that impression, doesn't he?
But Ferrari. Now, that's a prancing horse of a different colour. Throughout this whole year, from the "movable floor" protest in Australia (orchestrated by McLaren) through "Stepneygate" (passing on of Ferrari technical secrets to McLaren), Ferrari has been left holding the short end of the stick and very much feels like the aggrieved party.
They are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore.
So there is no way the Scuderia is going to sit back tomorrow (TSN, 11:30 a.m.) and let a rookie driver – a McLaren rookie driver – win the world driving championship. A two-time world champion who happens to drive for McLaren might be palatable. But not a rookie.
This sort of frontier justice thing has happened before.
In 1990 at Suzuka, Ayrton Senna was leading the championship; Alain Prost was his only challenger. They had a history. Although they eventually became close friends, at that moment on that day in that year in Japan they were bitter enemies.
They were one-two on the grid and when the lights went out, they went ripping toward turn one and when they got there Senna ran Prost right off the road and into a gravel trap. Senna was stuck in there with him but it didn't matter.
Mission accomplished. End of story.
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is the only one of the top four not in the championship hunt. And Ferrari rewarded him this week for his loyalty and hard work by extending his contract through the 2010 season.
Use your imagination. And remember: You Read It Here First.
CONSPIRACY THEORY 2
I'll tell you why all the open-wheel drivers are going to NASCAR.
It's a stealth operation being orchestrated by Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi and they're planning to take over.
As they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Then make 'em do things your way.
So Dario Franchitti, Jacques Villeneuve, A.J. Allmendinger, Patrick Carpentier, Sam Hornish, Buddy Lazier and Juan Montoya (soon to be joined by Scott Speed, Andrew Ranger and who knows how many others) are just the first wave.
There will be others.
And then, when all 43 stock car racers are all open-wheelers, do you know what they're going to do with the Car of Tomorrow?
They're going to take off the roof and the fenders (it already has a wing) and ... voilà!
Mission accomplished. And remember: You Read It Here First.
picture and story courtesy of http://www.wheels.ca/article/32308
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