Keep your armour on Alonso, says Hill
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-10 08:57
LONDON, Oct 9 - Former champion Damon Hill has warned Renault's Fernando
Alonso to watch out for Michael Schumacher, even if the German has publicly
ruled out his chances of winning the Formula One title.
"Michael said he's not thinking about the championship now, that's baloney.
He never gives up," the Briton, champion with Williams in 1996, told the BBC on
Monday.
"I would keep my armour on if I were Alonso until after the last race."
Schumacher is 10 points behind champion Alonso with one race, in Brazil next
week, to come after he retired from Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix with a blown
engine.
The only way the German can take a record eighth title is if he wins at
Interlagos -- his last race before retirement -- and Spaniard Alonso, winner at
Suzuka, fails to score.
"Don't ever write that guy off. It's not over until it's over," said Hill,
who had some epic battles with Schumacher in the 1990s, losing to him by one
point after a collision in the final race of 1994.
"He's going to go into that last race thinking: 'Now, how can I win this and
Alonso not score anything?' That's the way he's going to approach it. Otherwise
he's not Michael Schumacher."
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