Alonso critical of McLaren drivers
| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde |
Saturday, March 22nd 2008, 11:15 GMT |
 Fernando Alonso has singled out McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen for blame in the incident during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Hamilton and Kovalainen were summoned by the race stewards after Alonso and BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld said the McLaren duo were running very slowly on the racing line in the dying moments of qualifying.
Both Alonso and Heidfeld said the incident has cost them time.
"We had four (cars) in Turn Four, and then the two Ferraris I think somewhere else, so six cars or something like that," said Alonso.
"Four of them were off line, not disturbing (anyone), and two of them were on the racing line. The two McLarens."
Alonso said the situation was dangerous because of the speed difference between the cars.
"I think it is because this year's rules of Q3 being shorter, the people finish the timed lap in a different time and different position, so it was an unlucky situation," he said.
"They finished their timed lap a little bit earlier than us, but for me I am sure it was the worst thing. They are running at 60 km/h and we are at 300 km/h so it is too big a difference in speed and a little bit dangerous."
The Renault driver reckons a rules change would help, but he believes it's very important that drivers pay more attention.
"I don't know. That is a solution but as I said, we were six or seven cars, with five of them we had no problems so it is also up to us to move off the line."
|
