Fernando Alonso overheard taking sarcastic swipe at old rival Lewis Hamilton after blunder ahead of Spanish Grand Prix
FERNANDO ALONSO took a sarcastic swipe at Lewis Hamilton in Spanish Grand Prix practice.
The Aston Martin star was left raging in Friday’s second practice session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Alonso was ahead of Lance Stroll and Hamilton as they whizzed around the track.
The Spaniard and the Brit were both preparing for fast laps as, meanwhile, Stroll was on a fast lap of his own.
Alonso saw his team-mate coming and allowed him to pass.
Hamilton saw this and used the chance to overtake the 43-year-old without a point this season on the outside.
The seven-time world champion’s move angered Alonso and he was heard saying over the team radio: “We have the hero of the day in front of us.
“The good thing is that the weekend is very long, even the championship is very long.”
Alonso and Hamilton have a long-standing rivalry that dates back to when they were team-mates at McLaren in 2007.
Both were involved in confrontations on and off the track, with Alonso opening up about their relationship last year.
He told the DAZN documentary, ‘Fernando. Revealed’: “We were in the same team, the same garage, we travelled together many times, we were in the meetings and we began to notice that there was this friction, there was tension.
“There were many things that broke the relationship harmony of that year.
“We were young, immature, I was the first, and we had many clashes.
“Now there is another type of rivalry, I don’t think we will be friends in the future or that we will ever have… I think we don’t share many things.”