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 first!”

Hamilton said on Sky about Alonso's “idiot” jibe: “It doesn’t really matter what he says. I don’t really careඣ."
Hamilton accepted the blame for the incident: “Looking back at the footage he was in my blind 𝄹spot.
“I didn’t give him space.
“It was my fault today.
“It was my faul⛦t, I𓂃 couldn’t see him, 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 tricky corner.”
But Alonso was calmer post-race when he said: “⛄I was surprised and for sure, he now saw🌱 the incident and he takes responsibility, which is obviously very nice from him.
“It was a lap one i♛ncident, noth♏ing really more to say there or the stewards. 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 te🅷am.
“It’s a shame that sometimes everything is broadcas🌳ted, because if it’s broadcasted, this is what youꦜ say now [in the moment], this [right now] is how you behave in the media.
“When🥃 you’re talking on the radio it’s only a comment to your team, 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 bette💛r that it's out in the open how he ꦇfeels.”
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 teammat🃏es for McLaren in 2007 - Hamꦡilton’s first season 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.
Alo🐈nso told PA in 2021 about his relationship with Hamilton: “We have this respectful relationship, but maybe it is colder than it used to be.
“We have different opinions on different th𒁏ings. Lewis has a different lifestyle to many of us andꦜ that separates us.”
They will go face to face again🌊 at this weekend’s F1 Dutch Grand Prix.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to footbal🔥l, to F1.