By GMM
Fernando Alonso's former manager is confident that the Spaniard will in 2008 not suffer a recurrence of the problems that dogged his ill-fated single season at McLaren last year.
Adrian Campos, currently a GP2 team boss who raced in the 80s for Minardi, pins the blame for Alonso's irreparable problems last year squarely on the British team run by Ron Dennis.
"I am sure it will be different at Renault, although Piquet will be a tough opponent," he said.
"But Renault never lost a title because of such things," Campos added, in an apparent dig at Dennis' handling of his drivers' feud last year.
He told the Spanish news agency EFE that one of the differences between McLaren and Renault is the teams' differing attitudes towards Alonso, a former double world champion.
"Renault love him, they understand him, and give him what he needs," Campos explained.
"I think that if he cannot win the title this year, he will secure the next one, but he will certainly be competitive and always in the fight," he predicted.
Campos is bitter about Alonso's calamitous and curtailed tenure with Mercedes-powered McLaren, which at its peak had the 2005 and 2006 title winner labelled a traitor who suspected reverse favouritism and even internal sabotage.
"Fernando did not deserve treatment like that.
"He fought hard to be number one and it is incomprehensible that a newcomer gets the same treatment without doing the same work," Campos added.
Fernando Alonso's former manager is confident that the Spaniard will in 2008 not suffer a recurrence of the problems that dogged his ill-fated single season at McLaren last year.
Adrian Campos, currently a GP2 team boss who raced in the 80s for Minardi, pins the blame for Alonso's irreparable problems last year squarely on the British team run by Ron Dennis.
"I am sure it will be different at Renault, although Piquet will be a tough opponent," he said.
"But Renault never lost a title because of such things," Campos added, in an apparent dig at Dennis' handling of his drivers' feud last year.
He told the Spanish news agency EFE that one of the differences between McLaren and Renault is the teams' differing attitudes towards Alonso, a former double world champion.
"Renault love him, they understand him, and give him what he needs," Campos explained.
"I think that if he cannot win the title this year, he will secure the next one, but he will certainly be competitive and always in the fight," he predicted.
Campos is bitter about Alonso's calamitous and curtailed tenure with Mercedes-powered McLaren, which at its peak had the 2005 and 2006 title winner labelled a traitor who suspected reverse favouritism and even internal sabotage.
"Fernando did not deserve treatment like that.
"He fought hard to be number one and it is incomprehensible that a newcomer gets the same treatment without doing the same work," Campos added.