Ferdie:
Buddy,
get your records straight! Alonso won the championship in 2006, so what are you talking about? Alonso and Schumacher are both well known for their effort to push forward their respective teams, having both the will and talent to develop a car into the right direction.
Hamilton is a great driver as long as the car is good, if that is not the case he will fall behind. Drivers like Mansell, Barrichello or Hamilton are very, very fast if the car delivers, if not they will fall behind. Senna, Schumacher and Alonso, the later having shown this talent the last two years at Renault, can handle even an inferior car at a very fast pace - that is the difference a great driver makes over a good one.
Alonso fanboi I presume?
Please go and check up on the 2006 season before posting more, you are embrassing yourself here.
First half of the season Alonso was pretty much setting the pace with the illegal mass damper equiped Renault, but right after it got banned he dropped off the pace, he didn't win again until the end of the season, off the top of my head, I think it was the 3rd last race, when Renault finally found the speed they lost without the mass damper. He officially clinch the title 2nd to last race.
The Brawn areo package this year reminds me of the 06 season, difference being the aero package is ruled legal while the mass damper is not. I see Brawn/Button finding the lost speed advantage again before the end of the year and wins the title.
Since it's a well known fact that Hamilton is faster than Alonso in a equal car, and I do not consider naming Hamilton in the same bunch as Schummacher/Senna, Alonso is NOT in that group. Also, Schummy is not well known to whine when things doesn't go his way.
Alonso however, is in the same catagory as Mikka Hakkinen, both double world champs with superior speed in a superior car, which is pretty good company as Hakkinen is great champ himself. Hamilton follows closely as he would have been already a double world champ if he had any brains on the race track.