Alonso has reserved plenty of praise for fellow two🤪-time world champion Verstappen in recent years amid the Red Bull driver’s c♈urrent spell of F1 domination. 

Verstapp💧en is running away with the 2023 world championship having opened up a 125-point lead over teammate Sergio Perez. 

The Dutchman has claimed 10 wins from 12 races so far this season wit💮h his last at the Belgian Grand Prix marking his eighth straight vi♛ctory. 

Like himself, Alonso views Verstappen as a 𝔍bit of an outsider who has not had the easiest of rides with the media or the general public. 

"I like Max,” Alonso said in an interview with the . “He’s a driver who just comes Thursday to the circuit, dresses in a Red Bull uniform, r🥀aces Sat♌urday and Sunday and leaves the track, goes back home and is still racing on the sim or in GTs with his father or just enjoying motorsport in general but having a normal life. 

"Coming also from the Netherlands, [a country] with n🧸ot much background of F1. He's still a very normal person, just loviꦇng motorsport, and he's very fast. I think his attitude and behaviour here in the circuit, he is very normal and I like these kinds of things.”

Amid Alonso’s praise of Verstappen, did he also take a swipe at168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton?

Some fans on social media have suggested that 🐽Alonso’s comment about Verstappen ‘dressing in Red Bull uniform’ was a concealed dig at Hamilton, who famously turns up in the F1 paddock wearing eye-catching outfits. 

Alon🏅so and Hamilton have endured a love-hate relationship ever since a blockbuster falling out while teammates at McLaren during Hamilton’s rookie F1 season. 

In the same interview, Alonso provided further insight into the spectacular and cont꧟r𒐪oversial fallout with Hamilton at the 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix. 

Alonso also lashed💝 out at h🌱is former Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer over his contract debacle that ended✨ with him leaving to join rivals Aston Martin.