Mercedes' Hamilton and Alpine's Alonso came to blows while fighting for second place on the opening lap of last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, leading to Alonso branding Hamilton as an over team radio. Alonso added “this guy only knows how to drive and start🐻 in first.” 

Hamilton t🌜ook the blame foไr the incident but said he wouldn’t speak to Alonso after hearing the Spaniard’s comments. 

Addressing the situation ahead of this weekend’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Dutch Grand Prix, Alonso said: “It [was] made [into] a huge thing. First of all, it’s Lewis, he’s a champion, he’s a legend of our time.&n🌞bsp;

“And then when you say 💯something, ꦡand I’m sorry to repeat this, against a British driver, there is a huge media involvement after that. 

“They’ve been saying a lot of things to Checo, to Carlos, to me. If you say something tღo a Latin driver, everything is a little bit more fun. When you say something to others, it’s a little bit more serious, but anyway, yes I apologise. 

“I’m not thinking what I said, I don’t think that it♐ was much to blame in that moment looking at the replays to be honest, beꦚcause it was a first-lap incident and we are close together. 

“In the heat of the moment, the adrenaline of the moment, fighting finally for the top two, top three made me say those comments that I should not say. At the same time I said a🌼fter the race that it was a racing incident in my opinion. 

“When you say something on the radio, in that moment you think you are talking to your engineer, so you are preparing the st☂rategy, you start in the top three, you overtake Checo in the first corner and running second. 

“And then 𒐪something happens and you say something to your mate, to your colleague, to your engineer in that moment. Obviously you should be aware that it should be broadcasted🍷. 

“But it’s like if someone makes a hard tackle🌸 or something in football. In that moment you say something to your teammate or whatever, and in that moment it’s not broadcas💫ted. 

“Before the race or after ☂the r🃏ace, I said what I was thinking. On the radio, I said something that I was not… I don’t think that way.” 

Alonso is yet to speak with Hamilton but plans toꦦ apologise to the seven-time world ꦜchampion in person. 

“I will hopefull🍸y see him today,” he said. “When we are doing the TV pen I will approach him and say sorry if he understood in that way. 

“I have absolutely no problems with him and I h🙈ave huge respect for him.”

Asked if he stands by his comment aboওut Hamilton only being aꦑble to race from the front, Alonso replied: “No, I don’t believe. It’s not that I believe or don’t believe, there are facts that it is not that way. 

“It is something that you say in the heat of the moment, but nothing that I said is true and there are facts that are completely the opposite. So I hꦯave huge respect.”🍨 

Alonso adm♏itted he will now think ꦬtwice about what he says over the radio and is likely to be quieter in the future. 

“I will be very quiet on the radio,” he said. “It is a sport that you have things broa🌜dcasted, things that should be a little bit of privacy with your team. 

“So I will try to be a bit quiet alw꧟ays on the radio and don’t be part of a show that 🌊I don’t agree with. 

The two-time world champion🐼 added: “In football, in tennis, in whatever, you have your moments of privacy with your team and you prepare ever൩ything better. I know it’s part of the show. 

“As I said, all the things broadcasted on the radi🎃o are a bit spicy because the sport wants that spice into the race. They never said go to ‘dif position five’ because it’s not interesting and it’s what we talk about every lap. 

“I understand that but unfortunately the measure you will have to take to avoid broadc✱asting things you are not thinking, or in the heat of the moment, is to stay quiet all the t💖ime.”

Alonso and Hamilton were McLaren teammates in the first year of the Brit's F1 career. In the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 season, Alonso will appear in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:driver line-up for Aston Martin.