Ted Kravitz on ITV-F1.com has this to say in his pit lane notebook. Fascinating stuff. The more I read about it, the more Im hating Lewis.
McLaren
Hungary was a great race to attend as a neutral observer. It seemed everyone had something to be annoyed about, even the winning team which was slipping gently into civil war.
The details of what happened in qualifying have been extensively documented, so I thought I?d let you in on an untold highlight of the weekend, which was McLaren?s ?meet the team? press conference on Saturday afternoon ? although it was more a case of ?argue with and roundly abuse the team?.
Ron Dennis and Norbert Haug sat in the middle of a packed motorhome, with Fernando Alonso alongside.
First Ron apologised for Lewis not being there, saying that he was still too wound up by what had happened in qualifying and would not be attending.
Ron then explained, in a commendably frank and open manner, the sequence of events that started with Lewis deliberately disobeying repeated team orders to let Fernando past.
Dennis also confirmed that there had been a sweary exchange on the radio between himself and Hamilton, although was not asked what he made of Lewis?s instruction to ?swivel?.
The good bit started when the British press sunk their teeth into Fernando Alonso.
?Why didn?t you move off?? the Spaniard was asked. ?Because I was being given a countdown by the engineers to find a space in the traffic,? came the response.
This explanation didn?t satisfy Fleet Street, who?d already written their stories that Alonso deliberately held up Lewis, and didn?t want to hear any explanation to the contrary.
They asked him again and again, but Fernando held his nerve. ?I?ve told you four times now,? he said, laughing, ?I was waiting for a countdown from my team. We always do this.?
He?s right, it?s not always shown on TV, but there have been many times I?ve watched from the pits as Alonso is held for sequencing.
I was on Alonso?s side at this point ? I believed his version of events. But what emerged from the stewards revealed that Fernando wasn?t telling the whole story.
The fact was that the countdown ended when the lollipop lifted.
Fernando then had an argument with his engineer about why he had been given hard tyres.
He knew time was tight, but probably didn?t give a monkeys? about helping Lewis by moving out of the way, just like Lewis didn?t give a monkeys? about the team?s instructions to let Fernando past.
Anyway, by this time Ron had been called to the stewards, and Lewis entered the press briefing. ?Sorry, I?ve been watching the GP2 race ? I didn?t know this was on,? Hamilton explained.
The next five minutes saw Lewis casting doubt on Fernando?s story, Fernando looking thoroughly hacked off with being made out to be the bad guy and Norbert Haug, sat like some human shield between the two drivers, wishing he was somewhere else.
It was just about to get angry, personal and completely out of control when Martin Whitmarsh came in and called the whole thing to a halt.
It was powerful stuff, and Fernando was visibly furious. His perception is that he?s fighting not only against his team-mate, but also against the British media, most of the McLaren team, his team boss and the FIA stewards. He?s probably right on all counts.
I wouldn?t be at all surprised if he decided that actually the grass wasn?t greener, and goes back to Renault.
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Interesting how halfway through, Ron gets called to the Stewards office and then Lewis appears, and notices that theres no management around and then the problems begin. Lucky for Alonso that Martin was around to call an end to it.