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♓ꦆ 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 he𝕴 was in꧂ my blind spot.
“I didn’t give him space.
“It was my fault today.
“It was my fault, I couldn’෴t see him, he was in my blind sp⛄ot.”
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 responsi🧔bility, which is obviously very nice from him.
“It was a lap one incident, nothing really more to say there or the stewards. They didn’t say any📖thing becaꦅuse these things happen in that corner.”
Alonso reflected on calling Hamilton an “idiot”: “I was angry on the radio.
“The radio, any♏way, when you talk, you talk to your engineer 🐎and to your team.
“It’s a shame that sometimes everything is broadcasted, because𝐆 if it’s broadcasted, this is what you 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 you♉r 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 better that it's out in the open how h𒈔e 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 MℱcLaren 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 hi൲s relationship with Hamiltꦿon: “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 lifestyle to many of us and t🌠hat separates us.”
They will go face to face againℱ 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 football, to F1.