Ecclestone ziet Piastri als toekomstige wereldkampioen

Ja duhh dat ziet iedereen. Piastri heeft een veel hoger plafond dan Norris, LeClerc, Sainz, Russell, enz.

Als Norris kampioen wil worden is dit het enige jaar dat hij dat nog kan. Hierna zal Piastri hem ver voorbij streven.

Er bovenuit steken doet hij natuurlijk nog niet helemaal, wel zie je dat er enorm veel potentie in zit. Het is niet de vraag óf hij kampioen gaat worden, maar hoeveel titels hij gaat behalen.

Voor de eerste keer van mijn leven ben ik het eens met iets dat Eccllestone stelt. Enkele reacties van mij voor deze reactie, vroeg ik mij namelijk al af, of wij wellicht een nieuwe Senna in ons midden mochten verwelkomen : Niet aarzelen, niet afwachten, maar op souvereigne wijze ,de eerste beste gelegenheid benutten (opeisen), die zich voordoet om de leiding te pakken (en te houden).

Van Piastri gaan wij hopelijk nog veel meer horen (en genieten)

Off topic omdat er geen AM artikel is vandaag.
Alonso wou helemaal geen coureur worden.

"Alonso also said he never made a conscious decision to become a racing driver, claiming it came about as a result of his father.

“I didn’t choose to be a driver. It was my father, I have to admit,” he said.

“In my case, I did my first go-kart race at the age of three, which you can imagine, I didn’t choose to do the race. My father was very happy that day, my mother less.

“Then I think obviously you enjoy what you do, you develop some skills at a young age and then if you do well you have more opportunities. You deliver, you win, you go through categories and then eventually you get to F1.”

He said he considered trying to become a footballer at one stage. “When I was eight, nine, ten years old I remember going on the weekends to race but in the weekdays I was at the school playing football and I was a goalkeeper. And I remember that I was enjoying more playing football than the weekends racing.

“But I could not tell my father. And then in football, there are hundreds, thousands of players. In Formula 1, there are only 20.

“So it was more appealing, more exclusive! But, no, jokes apart, I think I missed a lot of things in life, I’m aware of that.”

Alonso said focusing on kart racing meant he “didn’t have a normal school time, I was missing a lot of time, I was just racing in Italy and different countries. I was doing the exams in the following weeks and I [was] struggling a little bit.

“At the age of 19, I became a Formula 1 driver. The first time I was in a disco, I was 29.
So I missed [out on] a lot of things.”

Now 43, Alonso says he does not intend to put off his personal goals for much longer. “I think I was happy with my life, I’m happy with my life. I still miss things.

“I don’t have kids: Something that I want to have, as a personal goal, in the next years,
not too long, hopefully.
And there are things that became not as planned when I was 15 or 16, I probably imagined a different life.”

Alonso spent two seasons out of F1 in 2019 and 2020, during which time he won the Le Mans 24 Hours and contested the Indianapolis 500. However he doubts he will return to the latter after F1.

“There is this very appealing thing, which is winning the Monaco Grand Prix in Formula 1 and winning Le Mans in endurance racing and winning the Indy 500 in oval racing, which is called the triple crown of motor racing. I attempted the Indy 500 three times, didn’t succeed. It’s the only one missing.

“But at the moment it’s not in my plan. I’m very, very focused in Formula 1 now for the next two or three years. I want to win the third world title. This is my first and only priority at the moment. And after that, because I will be 45, 46, I think the commitment that it will require to go to Indy 500, the amount of learning that I will have to redo again, it will be a little bit too much. Or it’s what I think now, I cannot say 100% that it will be too much.

“I have, as I said, other goals in life as well. I think my next biggest challenge will be the Dakar rally. If I can win Dakar, I think it will be hugely rewarding for me personally because I can win in Formula 1, I can win in endurance racing, win in Le Mans and Daytona, and if I can win in rally as well, it will mean a lot for me as a driver."

Racefans.

Echo's from the grave.

Mooi. Maar dit soort opmerkingen hoef ik niet op te wachten van Bernie. Dat ziet zelfs een leek.