Fernando Alonso should have had more than the two World Championships but only has himself to blame for it, according to triple world champion Nelson Piquet.
Alonso won the last of his two crowns back in 2006 whilst with the Renault F1 Team, and it has now been five years since he last stood on the top step of the podium, his final win coming while with Scuderia Ferrari in the Spanish Grand Prix in 2013.
His last three years with the McLaren Honda F1 Team has seen him score only eighty-two points with a trio of fifth places his best results, but 1981, 1983 and 1987 champion Piquet feels Alonso cannot blame anyone but himself for the lack of podiums, wins and championships.
“Fernando Alonso has had the chance to win up to five world championships, but the reality is that there is always a mess wherever he is,” said Piquet to Spanish broadcaster La Sexta.
“He is a fantastic driver, but also one who generates a lot of problems and in the end everyone ends up leaving the team. He is very bad politically in his work on the team.
“When you arrive on a team, at first you must be patient and work together, and later you win. But he always wants the best [straight away], and that is not the best way.”
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Pots and kettles.
A bit rich coming from Nelson.
What utter rubbish the man speaks. Alonso held both Ferrari and McLaren together when they were struggling which is more than Nelson Piquet ever did for his teams.
Twice Alonso missed out on the WDC with Ferrari by a few points in the last race. Had those races been slightly different then everyone would be praising Alonso the 4 x WDC and the amazing job he did to bring Ferrari together. Piquet is just bitter.
What a stupid line of reasoning and a delusional world. That is like claiming that if Hambone had won every race since he started he would have been WDC every year. A childish make believe view of the world. But, it is consistent with your opinions that are constantly ridiculed.
Alonso didn’t have to win every race genius, he just had to finish in front of Petrov, but Ferrari made sure that didn’t happen.
Piquet still whingeing years later.
Remember what Piquet said regarding who was the better driver, himself or Aryton Senna? that’s right, when I think of someone that personifies the word “asshole” I go straight to Piquet.
funny how different these comments would would be if Piquet had criticized LH instead of Alanzo
I can’t speak for the others, but I think that LH is a great driver, and seems a terrific person outside of sport. Piquet, was a good driver who outside of racing, is an ass.
This is certainly true of Alonso when he raced with Hamilton, and the awful relationship he had with Mclare the first time around. Still, I think the Piquet Snr is making trouble for Alonso because of the Singapore fiasco in 2008 and Piquet Jnr losing his entire racing career as a result
Piquet is truly a very bitter man. I’ve lost complete respect for this guy. Alonso kept the Ferrari flag flying for 5 years and would have won the title in 2010 if the team did not mess up their strategy and if Ferrari could have built a slightly better car in 2012. Alonso would have won at least 2 titles with Ferrari if he had the Ferrari of today. Secondly, McLaren would not have gone all out to retain Alonso if he was such a difficult guy.
Piquet is utter nonsense. He should have just kept his mouth shut.