Both Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton will fight for the one final time this year in the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix to decide the Formula 1 world champion this weekend. Lewis Hamilton is presently leading the driver championship but cannot afford to slip in Brazil because two-time world champion Fernando Alonso looks very determined to win the driver championship third time in a row.
Race has not started as yet but mind game has already begun. Hamilton is saying that there is no feud between him and Alonso and they quite a good friend off the track.
According to Hamilton,
We are as good [friends] as ever and we’ve got on quite well all year. It is the media has tried to put a gap between us. Like any relationship, after getting to know Fernando over the course of the last year, it has grown. I’m sure the respect for each other grows as well I guess. But on a Saturday and Sunday it’s a little different because you are in competition.
This is quite a surprising statement from Hamilton because he has said openly three or four times that he doesn’t like Alonso and he is not a worthy world champion. I guess Hamilton has been ordered by his team not to give any controversial statement in front of media. This is quite a good strategy on Hamilton part because at this moment of time his main focus should be on winning the race rather than talking. If Hamilton manages to win the Brazilian Grand Prix, he will become the first driver to win the world title in his rookie season.
