lukenwolf
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Though at the moment the superstar lifestyle might have scrubbed some of the speed away. Which brings us to Alonso, for managing to keep his personal life away from affecting his professionalism much. That is remarkable.
As for Vettel, he's doing nothing wrong except for some annoyances like the finger and that's about it.
Everybody manages to keep his professional and private life separate, except Hamilton. My theory is that nobody ever bothered to help him with that. Sure they probably told him, how he has to mention each of his sponsors at least once in an interview, but probably no one bothered to tell him, how to safeguard his family from the media vultures.
My theory is that this is down to two things. The first element is exposure. When Alonso started in F1, he was in a Minardi. Except for spanish TV, not too many people were interested in that spanish kid, who obviously hadn't yet grasped the concept of a razor. So Alonso "grew into it". He had medium media pressure at first and by the time he wound up at Renault, he had enough experience of how to keep the media types at distance. Hamilton was crowded and hailed as the best thing since sliced bread from day one, which leads to the second element - his father, who was whoring for any possible minute on TV instead of making sure that the media types leave his son enough space to breathe.
I remember a rather disgusting scene from the Brazlian GP, where Ham sealed his WDC. They had carted in his brother, who, IIRC has some sort of neurological ailment. Now, there's nothing wrong with that, if you make sure that the media leave him in peace - so nothing that two burly bodyguards can't fix. Instead they exposed him to the full media frenzy with reporters and camera crews crowding the poor bloke until he suffered some sort of seizure and collapsed to the floor like a sack of potatoes live on TV. I was sitting in shock and thought like 'how the hell do they let that happen to the poor boy? Why don't they just kick the vultures out of the garage?'. If they let that happen to his ill brother, how much protection do you think Lewis is afforded - none. He's been exposed to shit like that from day one and nobody bothered to help him with that.