[sameerrao]

I like having this topic because some of you childish posters can get over your Alonso hate and exhaust it here and keep the regular F1 race topics clean.

Alonso is a great driver. He is not a legend like Schumacher like the Spanish press make him out to be. But given the drivers that we have today it is obvious that there are three drivers in top rung today- Schumacher, Raikkonen and Alonso.

Schumacher has proved his abilities numerous times. Alonso has done so in 2005 and 2006. Raikonnen has done so in 2003 and 2005. Sadly events have conspired to deny him an overall win but he will get one soon rest assured.

Nor is Alonso merely lucky and talentless as some of you seem to think. He has shown great pace, a thinking mind and talent to spare over the last two years. Next year will be an acid test to see how he deals with a struggling car.

In the meantime it would be good if most of you guys focused more on what these drivers doing on the track and less on press comments and shit.