World champion Fernando Alonso refused to gloat in Monaco after his rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton ended Thursday practice in the barriers.
The race-weekend mistake was Hamilton’s first in an otherwise sensational early career, but McLaren driver Alonso said it is easy to end in tears on the famous street circuit.
“Thursdays here are always really slippery and we saw other drivers have problems as well.
“I had one or two moments myself,” the Spaniard said.
Alonso also played down speculation in Monaco that, in the driver briefing here, he complained about Felipe Massa’s tactics at the first corner of the recent Spanish grand prix.
“No, we talked about the safety of the Monaco circuit,” he insisted, “and little things that we can do to make it better — like putting more tyres at the first corner, where we saw two or three cars having incidents.
“I think I have said it before that this is not my favourite circuit to race on.”
