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 bu🌼t 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 care."
Hamilton accepted the blame for the incident: “Looking back at the footage he was in my blind s🅺pot.
“I didn’t give him space.
“It was my fault today.
“It was my fault, I couldn’t see him, he was in💧 my bඣlind 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 R🦹osberg, 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 fro𓃲m him🍬.
🎃“It was a lap one incident, nothing 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, anyw♎ay, when you talk, you talk t♛o 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 now [in the moment], this [right now] is how you beh💞ave 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 h🏅e 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 Bri🧸t and the Spaniard were teammates for McLaren in 2007 - Hamilton’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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Abu Dhabi 2021.
Alonso won two titles for Renault.
Alonso told PA in 2021 about his relationshi๊p with Hamilton: “We have this respectful relationship, but maybe it is colder than it used to be.
“We have different opinions on different things. Lewis has a different lifestyl🅷e to many of u✃s and 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 coverꦇing everything from American sports, to football, to F1.