Kimi and Juan Pablo’s Boss Sends His 2006 Greetings
Those of us that follow the F1 circus know many of it’s personalities, on occasion, become infected with a case of oral Montezuma’s revenge. The most prominent, if only because of his position as F1 supremo, Bernie Ecclestone dropped his medication and went off just prior to the British Grand Prix for example.
Oral Montezuma’s revenge being a viral infection hits many. It doesn’t discriminate between the top of F1 and some further down the food chain such as McLaren Team boss Ron Dennis:
The Woking-based team principal said that while Renault and Alonso ‘did the job’ from the word go in 2005, Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya perhaps had more to do with McLaren’s early problems than once thought.‘Our drivers,” Dennis told the ‘Guardian’ newspaper, ”psychologically overreacted to problems at the first round of the world championship and definitely didn’t respond to the pressure.”
Ron Dennis is many things, but I seriously doubt he is qualified, or licensed, as a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst. But I bet he can afford to purchase a very expensive endangered species leather couch for his charges to recline on.
Dennis went on to note Kimi Raikkonen’s performance during the Malaysian GP where, through no fault of his own (a tire valve failed), Kimi had a poor finish.
Ron said in the English ‘paper: ”It was all a bit frustrating. In most seasons, 10 race wins would have been good enough to clinch the world championship quite early in the season.”
That may be true, it’s also true if just one, or more probably two, of the four engine failures Kimi suffered during qualifying - and resulting in a ten spot starting penalty - the constructors championship would have been more hotly contested, if not won by McLaren.
I’m not a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst but feel strongly those four McLaren V10’s “psychologically overreacted” and puked their guts all over the tarmac due to abuse, and or neglect, back at the Woking engine factory.
But that’s just me (and I don’t have to lay on Dennis’ couch to figure it out), what do you think?
Cross Posted @ Fast Machines.
