Fernando Alonso's former manager Flavio Briatore rumbled on behalf of his protégé in the La Repubblica newspaper. According to Briatore Ferrari made the biggest mistake in the easiest race in Abu Dhabi.
- Ferrari miscalculated. Fernando should have been able to drive a completely different race. Ferrari shouldn't even have thought of Mark Webber because Fernando was so fast.
How was a mistake like that then possible?
- It's hard to say. Maybe they just interpreted Webber's early pitstop the wrong way. Mark didn't come to the pits because of some revolutionary strategy, he came because he had hit the wall. They didn't notice that at Ferrari, instead they started following men and fell into a trap, Briatore acknowledged.
Would Alonso now be a world champion if Briatore would have managed in the Ferrari pit?
- It is not correct to ask something like that at a moment like this. We are wiser after one day after the race. The day before and on racing day it's the most difficult when the solutions have to be made in one second and there's a risk of a mistake on every lap.
- It is a stupid scandal to bring a race this crucial on a track where you cannot make one single overtake.Somewhere in Monaco it's crowded but the Abu Dhabi track is in the middle of the desert where they could have built long and wide straights., which would have been able to build a long straight and wide curves. Now nobody can overtake even if they were sitting on camel's back.
- I'm so sorry for Fernando. He is a phenomenal driver, who drove a brilliant season. It is a pity that everything is now played down.
Turun Sanomat, Rome
Courtesy: Nicole
