No, it did not exist. Alonso simply did what is required as a part of the job of a top F1 driver. Find a way how to drive anything you have to drive the fastest possible way.
New Mercedes may be easy to drive for Hamilton in terms that he did not have to adjust but that does not mean that he wouldn't drive just as quickly as possible any other car with different characteristics. So it was easier for him but that's all.
If Kimi changed from Sauber days (and I know that he did), it simply means that he is not able to change enough. That's all. Everything else are just silly excuses.
Kimi himself is much more realistic than his fans. He knows it's up to him to solve his problems.
I agree.
I remember I talked about it in the F138 thread last year, before knowing anything about Raikkonen performance this year. I think people were saying that Alonso should leave the team; that the car was a disaster and Ferrari results were basically due to Alonso adaptability and his ability to extract the maximum from the car…I remember I said something like “is Alonso adaptable? that´s what Ferrari expects him be, the reason why he is so highly paid and considered one of the best drivers, even in history”
Alonso is doing his job, nothing more, nothing less, many people say he is the most complete driver, he should never be considered the most complete driver if he weren´t adaptable. This is what I thought last year and what I think now, nothing has changed in between. I said few days ago that Raikkonen needs to find the way in order to adapt, the man himself seems to think so. It cannot always be, as some Raikkonen fans seem to think, someone else´s /something else’s fault (the driving style, the wheather, the tyres, the lack of mileage, the engineers, the car built around Alonso, Alonso using the pull rod suspension at Minardi 13 years ago, bad luck…).Top drivers adapt. It is what it is.