World champion Fernando Alonso said on Monday that he is “indifferent” to the media hype surrounding his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton this year.
More widely reported in the British media today has been the Spaniard’s comments that “all of the help” of team officials is finding its way to the 22-year-old Canadian grand prix winner.
But during the interview with Spanish radio station Cadena SER, Alonso was read some of the sensationalist headlines recently penned by British journalists.
“Thank God the Spanish press has more respect,” he said.
Alonso, however, might even have a point, given a glancing look at some of the headlines devised by the same newspaper editors and journalists about the Spaniard’s Cadena interview.
The Guardian originally went with “Hamilton comes first at McLaren, whinges Alonso”, before changing the final phrase to ‘complains Alonso’.
Another said McLaren had been “accused of Hamilton bias”, while the Daily Telegraph reckoned Alonso was “venting his frustrations” after losing his championship lead in Montreal.
