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Sports / Motor Racing
Lauda tells Alonso to stop complaining
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-08-26 21:21
LONDON, Aug 26 - Triple champion Niki Lauda has told Fernando Alonso to
stop complaining about McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton and concentrate
on driving if he wants to keep his Formula One title.
The Spaniard, seven points behind Hamilton going into Sunday's Turkish
Grand Prix, has been unhappy with his treatment at McLaren and feels
unrewarded for what he has brought to the championship leading team.
"Instead of complaining, moaning and bitching, which is what Alonso is
doing at the moment, all he needs to do is concentrate on driving
quicker," Lauda told BBC Radio Five Live from Istanbul.
"He is using all kinds of excuses. He should have done this after the
second or third race of the season after he realised how quick Hamilton
is. He didn't do that."
"My worry is if he continues to find the reasons somewhere else, and not
in his right foot, he will lose out because Hamilton is doing a perfect
job, simply concentrating on his driving and he's quick. It's what Alonso
should do."
Hamilton, 22, has made an astonishing impact this season with three wins
from his first 11 races and 10 appearances on the podium.
Former McLaren driver Martin Brundle, now a commentator for British ITV
television, also criticised Alonso in the Sunday Times newspaper for
getting "annoyed like a spoilt child".
"The Spaniard has to stop moaning and get on with it," the Briton wrote.
Lauda believes Hamilton could go on to emulate Michael Schumacher, the
most successful driver in Formula One history.
"If he keeps on developing his experience and his speed he can certainly
be better, might be better, than Schumacher but he is certainly on the
right road because nobody has been so impressive coming into Formula
One," he said.
Lauda, who was also a champion with McLaren, said that the rivalry
between team mates was healthy for the sport.
"McLaren has the two most competitive drivers fighting each other like
crazy to go quicker. All the politics before and after don't really
count," he said.
"There is always mistrust between drivers in the same team."
"I had the same thing with (Alain) Prost in the old days when we were
fighting the whole year and I won the championship by half a point," said
the Austrian.
"You cannot trust your team mate."
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