Break allows McLaren to lick self-inflicted wounds06.08.2007 16:00 SportsBy Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - McLaren boss Ron Dennis looked forward to Formula One's summer break with the air of an exhausted swimmer reaching for a lifeline. "It's a very, very pressured job at the moment. Would anyone like it?" he enquired with a thin smile at the weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix as reporters pressed around. Dennis could still joke, but only just. His team are leading the championship but no sooner do things appear to be going right, than they go sensationally wrong again. The time off before the next race in Turkey on August 26 offered a welcome respite. Already battling Ferrari on and off the track, with a spying controversy overshadowing the past month, the championship leaders began fighting among themselves as well at the Hungaroring. And this time it was self-inflicted. Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, first and second in the championship, were no longer on talking terms on Sunday after a qualifying that laid bare the internal divisions. Double world champion Alonso took pole position, but only after Hamilton was blocked behind him in the pit lane. The delay cost the 22-year-old British rookie the chance to go faster. Race stewards took a dim view and what might have seemed an internal dispute resulted in Alonso being demoted five places, Hamilton getting pole and McLaren denied constructors' points. Continued... Source: reuters.comwww.alllee.com |
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