McLaren’s championship leader and title favourite Lewis Hamilton has hit back at Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo.
Referring to the espionage saga, in which McLaren was kicked out of the constructors’ championship but allowed to keep racing for the drivers’ crown, Montezemolo said recently that if Hamilton wins, it will be “thanks to Ferrari, because within his car there is plenty of our team.”
Even if Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen wins the 2007 finale in Brazil next weekend, the Finn will only be drivers’ champion if Hamilton improbably finishes outside of the top five.
According to the German newspaper Bild, 22-year-old Hamilton hit back at Montezemolo by saying: “I am leading the championship because we have had a better car than Ferrari, and because we did a better job with our reliability.”
