Lewis Hamilton has responded to Fernando Alonso’s post-race rant over workforce radio on the Singapore Grand Prix.
F1’s most skilled drivers ended Sunday’s race simply four-tenths aside on the chequered flag.
Hamilton was over 40 seconds forward of Alonso, operating in sixth place.
Nevertheless, a late-race brake challenge meant Hamilton needed to drive the ultimate two laps at an extremely gradual tempo.
In a bid to get across the observe safely, Hamilton reduce a number of corners, which finally allowed him to remain forward of Alonso.
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Hamilton’s brake challenge – mixed along with his ways on the ultimate lap to remain forward of Alonso – aggravated the Aston Martin driver.
This led to a rare radio message from the two-time F1 world champion.
Alonso mentioned over workforce radio: “Oh, fu**ing hell, man. I can not consider it. Yeah, he knew it. I can not fu**ing consider it, I can not fu**ing consider it. I imply, I can not fu**ing consider it. I can not fu**ing consider it.
“Is it protected to drive with no brakes? Oh, he ought to…”
His engineer replied: “Yeah, no, no, we need to, we agree, we’re checking observe limits and stuff as properly. You see, there is a margin there. Run swap warm-up, mate, run swap warm-up. That’s P8 anyway, so good restoration.”
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Alonso added: “Yeah, however this must be fu**ing P7. I imply, you can’t drive. Like if you’re alone on observe. Yeah, I imply, no respect the purple flag yesterday, as we speak, free observe for them. I imply, possibly an excessive amount of.”
Alonso was promoted to seventh after Hamilton was handed a five-second time penalty following the race.
Hamilton responds
Hamilton has responded to Alonso with a refined publish on his Instagram story.
Captioned “18 years off…”, Hamilton posted a compilation from the British comedy One Foot within the Grave, during which the primary character repeatedly exclaims: “I don’t consider it!”
Hamilton is having a tricky debut season with Ferrari
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It’s not the primary time Hamilton has hit again at his former teammate.
Following earlier feedback from Alonso about Hamilton’s world titles – and the extent of competitors he confronted in a few of them – the seven-time world champion posted a cryptic tweet.
The publish by Hamilton was merely a picture of him pointing his finger at Alonso once they had been teammates at McLaren.
The photograph was from the 2007 United States Grand Prix, the place Hamilton had overwhelmed Alonso to the win.
