Lewis Hamilton says he has always respected his former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso and has denied that there was ever a personal dispute between himself and the Spaniard as they battled for the title at McLaren last year.
“I don’t think there was a particular dispute between us,” he said at Mercedes-Benz’s Stars & Cars event in Stuttgart this weekend, according to autosport.com.
Hamilton also disclosed that Alonso was one of the first drivers to congratulate him after he won the world championship in Brazil.
“It was great to see him in the garage,” said Hamilton. “He came over as I saw my team, I turned round and he was there – just to wish me congratulations. Then he said congratulations to the rest of the team.”
“I had a huge amount of respect for him already, but it took a big man to come and do that so I was very thankful to him.”
Alonso’s feud with McLaren stemmed from his belief that the the team were biased towards Hamilton and that eventually resulted in him leaving the team.
