Rivals slate Hamilton`s aggressive driving style.
Formula 1 World Championship leade🍎r Lewis Hamilton has again come under fire in the wake of the Italian Grand Prix at the weekend - this time for his driving etiquette.
Fo✅rmula 1 World 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 eti﷽quette.
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] - qualif🔥ied just 15th at Monza after making a severely misguided tyre choice in Q2.
That left him having to fight his way uꦏp through the order to his eventual seventh place finish at the chequered flag - rather too robustly on occasion, some have claimed.
"There were some unnecessary movements 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 him💝, but he left me no room.
"Someti🏅mes 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 exactly the same way."
The contact with Webber to which Alonso referred came late on in the race, as the Australian and Hamilto🥃n 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 w🌃ant to stay there on the wet patch or I wouldn't have made the corner," 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 Felipe Massa in the title chase, pending McLaren's Spa-Francorchamps appeal.