Rivals slate Hamilton`s aggressive driving style.
Formula 1 Wo🌃rld Championship leader Lewis Hamilton has again come under fire in the wake of the Italian Grand Prix at the weekend - this time for his driving etiquette.
Formula 1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton has again come under fire in the wake of the Italian G🌠rand Prix at the weekend - this time for his driving etiquette.
The McLaren-Mercedes star - who divided paddock opinion with his chicane-cutting during the Belgian Grand Prix just over a week ago, and who only very recently criticised the behaviour of some of his fellow drivers during qualifying [see separate story - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:click here] - qualified just 15th at Monza after making a seveꦓrely misguided tyre choice in Q2.
That left him having to fight his way up through the order to his eventual seventh place finish at the che𓆉quered flag - rather too robustly on occasion, some have claimed.
"There were some unnecessary mo💧vements he made," former team-mate and sworn rival Fernando Alonso told reporters at the famous Italian circuit, "and he repeated them with [Timo] Glock and [Mark] Webber. It is his way of racing."
"I do not know what he was thinking," agreed Toyota ace Glock - Hamilton's successor as GP2 Series Champion last year - in an interview with German broadcaster RTL. "I was right next to h🥀im, but he left me no room.
"Sometimes he drives as though he is completely alone on the track. The next time I am with him on-track, I will behave with him in exact💦ly the same way."
The contact with Webber to which Alonso referred c🉐ame late on in the race, as the Australian and Hamilton tussled over seventh place and locked wheels going into the first chicane - though the latter 💎is adamant he did nothing wrong.
"I made sure I covered my inside spot, but I didn't want🉐 to stay there on the wet patch or I wouldn't have made the cܫorner," the 23-year-old explained. "He (Webber) just clipped my front wheel and went on."
Following the race, Hamilton now holds a slender one-point advantage over Ferrari's Felip♑e Massa in the title chase, pending McLaren's Spa-Francorchamps appeal.