Fernando Alonso says his relationship with Lewis Hamilton is “colder” now than in the years straight after when they were McLaren team-mates. Now holding nine World Championships between them, the duo were colleagues in 2007, Hamilton at the time a Formula 1 rookie aged 22 while Alonso arrived having just secured back-to-back titles with Renault. They did not hit it off and Hamilton proved to be his more experienced team-mate’s equal over the course of that season, literally in the sense that they both finished one point behind Kimi Raikkonen who captured Alonso’s crown. This year, in which he has returned to the sport after two seasons away, the 40-year-old Spaniard has previously...
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