The duel between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in 2007 as teammates at McLaren is one of the great moments in the history of Formula 1. The Spaniard analyzes it from the perspective of time and the maturity reached 14 years later.
Fans of Formula 1 We will forever remember the 2007 season, in which an internal war that arose as a result of the world title dispute between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton ended up serving the championship on a platter for Kimi Räikkönen, then at Ferrari.
But it is not the fact that Scuderia won his last Drivers’ World Championship in that season the one that is most remembered, but that intense dispute for the supremacy of Mclaren that ended Fernando Alonso out of the team.
“We have no problems between us, we had a very tough, but fair competition”
«2007 was a very important season for me. Lewis came to F1 like a tsunami with all his talent, skills and results, immediate results, that was intense and also a challenge for everyone “, recalls the Spanish pilot.
“Looking back, I think Lewis will think the same, we have no problems with each other, we had a very tough but fair competition. Honestly, I think and so did he, the team didn’t handle the situation. “says Alonso, who returned to McLaren seven years later to lead the joint project with Honda.
“I don’t want to blame Ron Dennis, team principal in 2007, I don’t want to blame a particular name, but as a team and as a management. We were too young (26 years Alonso; 22 years Hamilton), too ambitious and no one guided us »Alonso said.
The 2012 picture
Fernando Alonso He has also remembered one of his iconic images: when after losing the World Cup in 2012, he was petrified with his eyes lost on the horizon for a few seconds.
However, the Spaniard has denied that this image was caused by the fact of having lost the championship against Sebastian Vettel in the last race, but by the reaction of Felipe Massa -his partner in Ferrari- at the end of the test.
«We lost the championship and I wanted to hug Felipe, but he cried a lot. I was waiting for it, but I was shocked, not because he lost the championship in those laps, shocked because Felipe cried a lot »Remember about that Brazilian Grand Prix.
“We were both on the podium, I was second and Massa third, so I was supposed to be happy, but Felipe was crying like a baby so I was curious to see what was going on. That was my reaction there, “concludes Alonso.