Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso have been teammates for just one year, but the partnership has angered each other.
With Lewis Hamilton making his F1 debut as a rookie and Fernando Alonso establishing himself as a two-time world champion, future seven-time world champion Hailton is expected to fill a role second only to Alonso. .
The rift between the two culminated when Fernando Alonso deliberately stayed out of the pits to delay Lewis Hamilton’s qualifying bout for the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix.
But it became clear that dirty tactics weren’t just limited to the track.
Mark Priestley, a McLaren mechanic turned broker, told PitStop that Fernando Alonso once handed him a brown envelope containing 1,500 euros.
“One of Fernando’s tactics is to get the whole team to his side of the box. He tries to fight with control,” said 45-year-old Mark Praestley.
“In 2007 Fernando showed up for the race and when I arrived Fernando’s manager or his coach was handing out small brown envelopes full of cash to anyone who was not in Lewis’s car.
“His team, his support team, I was running the T Carr team and I remember that we all got that brown envelope and opened it. There was around 1,500 euros.”
“It was very dangerous. First I got a brown envelope that didn’t say anything on it. It was like, ‘Thank you so much for that. What is this?’ It was full. ‘
“I started looking around and all my colleagues started asking me ‘Did you open it? He was alone
“It suddenly became clear what happened here. He was trying to get support. For example, people were working to support his part in this fierce battle.”
However, the tactic failed when the McLaren F1 team discovered it and forced the recipient to donate the money to charity.
“You could say it was a clever tactic, but in the end the team discovered it and had the entire amount donated to charity. That was fine, it was a little insight into two different mindsets.”
“Lewis did different things too. Lewis played a little game with the media. Everyone got it wrong and did things right. None of us are perfect, but we become the best F1 drivers. They were different in the way they implemented. their strategies for 2019. They both had excellent results, had their own methods and were very different approaches. “
F1 veterans Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso now look like best friends. Alonso blamed Hamilton on the radio after his accident at Spa, but received a Mercedes cap signed by Hamilton for a reconciliation photo.
