Lewis Hamilton vs Fernando Alonso: The full war of words from F1 Belgian Grand Prix

Alonso raged via his team radio after Hamilton clipped him: “What an idiot!
“Closing the door from the outside.
“I mean, we had a mega-start but this guy only knows 🌜how to drive and start in first𒅌!”

Hamilton said on Sky about Alonso's “idiot” jibe: “It doesn’t really mat🀅ter what he says. I don’t really🍬 care."
Hamilton accepted the blame for the incident: “Looking back at the footage he was in my b♊lind spot.
“I didn’t give him space.
“It was my fault today.
“It was my fault, I couldn’t see himಌ, he was in my blind spot.”
Max Verstappen chimed in by seemingly blaming Hamilton: “It was not a car's width.”

Alonso recalled how Hamilton had crashed out of Spa in the past: “It happened in the past, also, I remember with Nico Rosberg, the same thing. So it’s a tri๊cky corner.”
But Alonso was calmer post-race when he said: “I was surprised and for sure, he now saw the incident and he takes responsibil🔯ity, which is obviously very nice from him.
“It wa🔴s a lap one incident, nothing really more to say there or the stewar꧅ds. They didn’t say anything because these things happen in that corner.”
Alonso reflected on calling Hamilton an “idiot”: “I was angry on the radio.
“The radio, anyway, when you talk, you talk to your engineer🌄 and to your 🌸team.
“It’s a shame that sometimes everything is broadcasted, because if it’s broadcasted, this is what you say n🐓ow [in the moment], th🐟is [right now] is how you behave in the media.
“When you’re talking on the radi🐈o it’s only a comment to your tea𒁏m, normally.”
Hamilton wasn’t ready to let the issue fade away: “It's nice to know ♊how he feels about me. And so it's better that it's out in the open how he feels.”
Perhaps the most cutting comment was when Hamilton said: “We had different results in our careers!”

The Hamilton vs Alonso rivalry
The Brit 💮and the Spaniard were teammates for McLaren in 2007 - Hamilton’s first seas🌸on in F1.
Hamilton went on to become a seven-time world champion, and would have set an all-time record with an eighth if not for the events of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Abu Dhabi 2021.
Alonso won two titles for Renault.
Alonso told PA in 2021 about his relationship with Hami🐻lton: “We hav🐠e this respectful relationship, but maybe it is colder than it used to be.
“W🐼e have different o🔜pinions on different things. Lewis has a different lifestyle to many of us and that separates us.”
They will go face to face again at this weekend’s F1 Dutch Grand♉ Prix.

Jamesܫ was a sports journali꧙st at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.