World champion Fernando Alonso has expressed frustration at the press’ fascination with the McLaren driver lineup in 2007.
The Monaco winner twice outpaced his rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton in the practice sessions at Montreal on Friday, whereafter a scrum of reporters asked if his sterling pace might be a reaction to the recent ‘team order’ saga.
After Monaco, mostly British journalists suggested that Alonso had dominantly won only because Hamilton was ordered to settle for second.
“I have approached today exactly the same as I usually do,” Spaniard Alonso was quoted as saying by the newspaper Diario As.
“It is an uncomfortable situation at the moment. If I am seven tenths in front of Hamilton I have to explain myself. The same is true if I am behind.”
Championship leader Alonso also suggested that the ‘uncomfortable’ situation is unlikely to get any better on Saturday.
“If I use less fuel for qualifying the British press will complain,” he said, “but if Lewis has less fuel, it will be you (Spanish reporters) who are complaining,” he predicted.
