@genius83
Genius, my friend, I was talking about the next 6 odd years as part of the Alonso era, where others will be measured against him and will need to beat him as long as he has a semi decent car.
As for Alonso winning or getting the team built around him, what better way to do that than winning? I can't think of a better way. He is not Raikkonen, who lets be honest didn't win the title as much as one team threw it away. You will be hard pressed to find an example like that where a team, Mclaren, threw away three or four chances to bag the title. As a driver and team leader, Alonso is in a different league to Kimi. Winning is what Ferrari have brought him for and he is not like people running BMW, who after one win decided it was enough and concentrate on winning the title next year which never happened. You take your opportunities as you might not get another chance for a long time.
Honestly, there was no rivalry between Schumacher and Hakkinen. Fighting for two titles does not really constitute a great rivalry. Schumacher was missing for the second half of 1999 and Hakkinen was asleep in the first half of 2000, when DC actually took the fight to Schumacher. It's all stuff that people say because Schumacher once said Hakkinen was his rival. Yes, he was from their F3 days when Schumacher brake tested him;) but Hakkinen never had the car and when he did, he lost motivation quite quickly. Schumacher was a different animal, never lost his motivation or dedication and worked harder every year. He was lucky to some extent in that his main rivals were almost always in the wrong cars.
Luca wouldn't dare throw him out. Yes, he never wanted Schumacher from the start. He never made a secret of it and often said in numerous interviews- that if he had his way/choice, he would put Mika Hakkinen in a Ferrari.
Lastly, here is a quote from Gazzatte dello Sport, a news paper owned by the Agnelli family and obviously a mouth piece of Ferrari as a result. It's too harsh and over the top because it's only after one win but they form public opinion and this is what most of the tifosi would be thinking too;
"Meanwhile the Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, made a reference to the fact that the race lacked spectacle but went into raptures about the result. The paper eulogises Alonso as “the Messiah”, talks of the “Alonso era” at the team and describes him as the driver who has allowed Ferrari to finally “cut the umbelical cord that tied Ferrari to the Schumacher era. ”
I think Alonso need not worry about what the tifosi think:D