“I don’t think we’ll be friends in the future…”
Fernando Alonso He was very sincere and persistent in his assessments. his relationship with Lewis Hamilton in the DAZN documentary “Fernando. Disclosed’. Also revealing aspects of the controversial 2007 season.
This is the year at McLaren with Lewis Hamilton making his Formula 1 debut. “There’s a different type of rivalry now, I don’t think we’ll be friends in the future or ever… I don’t think we have much in common.. But it is true that in 2007 rivalry has reached a higher level“, – sums up.
And he gets into it. “We were on the same team, in the same garage, we traveled together a lot, we were in meetings and we started to notice that there was friction. there was tensionWe played at the World Championships and played at every race on Sunday. You come to a team meeting and see their telemetry, their “on-board” car cameras and how, for example, their car is driving a little ahead, and when he speaks at the meeting, he complains about the rear end and things like that. So the team is not choosing a direction or philosophy to develop a car that suits both of us, but rather everyone is already looking for something different to have that extra edge because we were very equal. There were many things that disturbed the harmony of that year. We were young, immature, I was the first, and we had a lot of conflicts.“he admits.
Sticks with Ron Dennis
Fernando criticizes Ron Dennis. “We had a boss who couldn’t control the situation. This would not have happened with Flavio Briatore. Or Lawrence Stroll. There are certain characters in Formula 1 that are respected and there are others that the drivers are in control of. In that 2007 McLaren, the drivers were too much in control and no one gave us any serious warning.“, free.
The man from Oviedo admits that not everything has come to light and that not everything will be revealed yet. “I think that it will remain locked. I have deleted a lot, I would have to remember a lot to get to the details. Was difficult yearwhere Hamilton and I were most at fault due to immaturity and lack of teamwork,” he says.
No wound closure
With Lewis, he admits there are still differences. “Over time we had more. We played cat and mouse in Canada in 2013, and in Abu Dhabi in 2023 too. In Bahrain it was the lucky moment of the year because I came to Aston Martin and in the fight for the podium I had to beat Hamilton. Every time we get ahead of each other, it brings additional satisfaction and pain when you are ahead.. And I think that will always be with us,” he explains.