Unfortunately we'll have to wait and see what happens because it's not 100% sure that Kubica will join them at all. The main point is if Ferrari and McLaren want to win WDC they need to have two strong drivers to take points out of the competitors but only one clear leader. In 2008 Hamilton was lonely fighter against both Ferraris in 2007 they were too busy to fight with Alonso instead of Kimi and Massa. It was the same in 2010 and 11 where Ferrari clearly decided Alonso to be the N1 since the start of the season. The bad point is that in McLaren they can't decide and let their drivers to race and this causes huge point loss. There were so many occasions in 2011 where Hamilton was faster but they didn't tell Jenson to let him past (Turkey, Canada at the start and other tracks).
Yea of course, i just went with the assumption that Kubica would get the seat in this case for the discussion.
Alonso decided himself to be nr1 when he was 75 points a drift and decided to win Monza, Singapore and Korea by himself.
He had no aero parts that wasn´t on Massa´s car. They both have two teams and they both get help.
The thing you do as a nr2 driver is to support your teammate in the races, this is impossible if they on purpose makes Massa´s car slower.
The fact was that he was slower then Alonso pretty much every race, so he put himself in that position.
Mclaren are a good team, they let the guys duke it out on track for 2010 and 2011 in Turkey.
Hamilton if i remember correctly was vitorious in both of those occasions. You can´t say they same about Red Bull where when Webber was the faster man in Silverstone for example they told him to back off.
Probably because Vettel took them both out in Turkey..
Again, it all depends on the performance of the driver, no team will deliberately make one car slower then the other, that´s stupid.
As you say yourself you need two cars to take points with.
Massa has put himself in nr2 by his performances not because Ferrari dumbed his car down.
