rivalry between lewis hamilton and Fernando Alonso
Lewis Hamilton reacted to his rival Fernando Alonso’s comments questioning the value of some of his seven World Driver’s Championship.
The two-time world champion, Fernando Alonso, said to a Netherlands-based newspaper, Telegraf, that a championship has less value when you fight with your teammate for it.
As a response to his former Mclaren teammate, Hamilton shared a tweet with a photo from his Mclaren era with Hamilton standing at the top of the podium and Alonso beside him in second place with a thumbs-up emoji.
Hamilton reacted to the press about this in the post-race interview after the Mexican GP on Sunday, saying that he does not have anything much to say about the topic and that it makes him “giggle”.
He further commented that he has always remained respectful to Alonso whenever the press asked him who was the best driver he’s raced against and has always given him praise. He said that he was interested in seeing the comments made and that it didn’t matter.
Alonso had tried to reduce the impact his tweet had on the public on Saturday with a post on Twitter.
Hamilton made his Formula One debut in 2007 with Mclaren Mercedes, alongside then-world champion Fernando Alonso.They were both involved in a heated and sometimes “bitter” bout with each other. But both ultimately lost out to the former McLaren driver who moved to Ferrari, Kimi Raikonen.
At the end of the 2007 season, both the drivers had the same number of wins and were tied for points, but Hamilton was classified as second in the championship as he had the most P2 finishes.
In the interview, Alonso compared his two world championships that he won consecutively in 2005 and 2006 to Max Verstappen’s consecutive double world championships against seven-time world champion Hamilton, who equalled the record of Michael Schumarcher.
Alonso said that Max was dominant this season and he was able to cruise to a world championship win. But the last season was different as he out-performed Hamilton in the last laps of the race and he thinks that Hamilton is a truly worthy world champion.
He said that he has immense respect for Hamilton and that it was different when he’d won seven world championships fighting his teammate, and that a championship has less value if a person has fewer championships, but to compete against drivers with equal or better machinery and material than him.
I commented on these championship winning seasons, in 2005 and 2006, respectively, by saying that he had a good start at the beginning of the season and then others had better cars with their development, but he had managed to hold on to the lead and manage the gap.
He said that he never had to fight with his then team-mate Gincarlo Fisichella to win his titles and that he had never seen Max fight with Sergio Perez, Alex Albon, or Pierre Gasly to win races.
Alonso compared Lewis with Micheal Schumarcher, citing that Micheal had to fight with his team-mate Rubens Barachello to become a five-time world champion in a row during his stint with the Scuderia, but he thinks that Hamilton fighting Nico Rosberg and Valtteri Bottas was different.
Schumacher and the prancing horse had dominated the early 2000s with him winning the 2001, 2002 and the 2004 world championships back to back with the German only having to beat his team-mate, the Brazilian driver Rubens Barachello, and his only close rivals with whom he had a close fight were Mclaren Mercedes’s Finnish driver, the Iceman, Kimi Raikonen and Williams BMW’s Indy 500 winning Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
Although it is true that Mercedes had the fastest car and was unbeatable from 2014 to 2016, Ferrari was much faster for the majority of the seasons in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Ferrari’s German driver, Sebastien Vettel, led the championship table for most of the season when the Ferrari was quicker, but lost the lead to Mercedes when both team and driver made mistakes. Reliability issues and losing the development war to Mercedes led to their defeat in those years.
Hamilton’s boss and Mercedes’s Team Principal and CEO, Toto Wolff, said that Alonso is a teaser and he’s just creating comedy and headlines and said that the sport was all about headlines and that they were both great champions and that his comments do not bother Hamilton at all.
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