If recently it was Fernando Alonso who remembered his time at Ferrari , now it has been Luca Cordero di Montezemolo . The former president of the Italian team reacted violently on two occasions after a Grand Prix. One when Felipe Massa was on the verge of glory in 2008 and the other in 2010, when Fernando Alonso lost the Formula 1 World Championship in the last race.
Although the Asturian arrived in Abu Dhabi with an advantage over Sebastian Vettel despite the fact that the Ferrari was much slower than the Red Bull, the German ended up winning at the Yas Island Circuit. Fernando Alonso, who started third, finished seventh that race. Vettel was proclaimed Formula 1 world champion for the first time while Alonso did not get his third world championship by only 4 points .
“I have to watch the races alone. I ‘ve already smashed two televisions. One, when Massa lost the World Cup, a unique thing in the world . Pam! I smashed it with a bang. The other, when, with Alonso, we lost the World Cup in Abu Dhabi in 2010 ”, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo pointed out in Sky Italia.
Massa could not win with Ferrari
Regarding what happened with Felipe Massa, the Brazilian could have been proclaimed world champion in 2008. For this he needed to win the Brazilian Grand Prix, something he did, and for Lewis Hamilton not to finish in the top five. Finally the Briton, who was running sixth, overtook a Timo Glock in the rain that had not mistakenly changed tires. On that occasion, Ferrari lost the World Cup by just 1 point .
Alonso and Vettel did not either
And, since Kimi Raikkonen was proclaimed champion in 2007, no other Ferrari driver has managed to win the title. Not even Fernando Alonso or Sebastian Vettel were able to do it, something the Spaniard alluded to a few days ago. “ We both tried it at Ferrari , we got closer, but in the end we didn’t succeed. Maybe Ferrari was not ready to have a world champion in the cockpit when we raced there, “said Fernando Alonso.
“Now they have modified their plan. The expectations are not so high anymore and they race with young drivers. Now they tend to think in the long term, and not in the short term as before ”, added the Spaniard, celebrating that Carlos Sainz and Leclerc are under less pressure than he and Vettel did.
The memory of Schumacher
The one who did win, and not one but five consecutive World Cups with Ferrari was Michael Schumacher. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo wanted to remember the latter in his interview. ” When we won the Formula 1 World Championship in 2003 or 2004, Michael Schumacher gave me a beautiful Harley-Davidson, which I still use when I take a few laps on certain roads,” concluded the former president of Ferrari .
According to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said in his day, Fernando Alonso was very close to the performance of the German. “ In terms of performance, Fernando was very good . For me, Alonso is at the same level as Hamilton and Vettel ; and in the race he is very close to Michael . In the race, Alonso was and is a fantastic driver. He did not lose the championship because of his mistakes ”, declared the former president of Ferrari, exonerating the Spaniard, who also lost the world championship in 2012 by 3 points .
