“Now looking back on it, it was amazing”– Lewis Hamilton relishes thinking about epic battle with Fernando Alonso in Hungary

Tanish Chachra | 02/08/2021
"Now looking back on it, it was amazing"– Lewis Hamilton relishes thinking about epic battle with Fernando Alonso in Hungary

“Now looking back on it, it was amazing”– Lewis Hamilton talks about his epic battle with Fernando Alonso in Hungaroring.

Despite being won by Esteban Ocon, the Hungarian Grand Prix was more about the person who helped him in providing it– Fernando Alonso, who had an epic battle with Lewis Hamilton.

The duo shares a hostile history of more than 14 years, and it reflected on the track on Sunday, where Alonso exhibited one of his best defensive appearances.

Eventually, Hamilton pinned the Spaniard, but at the cost of remaining P3 (eventually P2 after Sebastian Vettel’s disqualification). Looking back onto it, Hamilton says it was one classic battle.

“Now looking back on it, it was amazing,” Hamilton toldRacingNews365.com. “It really was fantastic. I wish the cars could follow closer. [I’m] excited for what the cars are like next year [to see if it] eradicates some of that bad drafting that we have here.

“It’s a challenging circuit to overtake in general and to follow, particularly in that last sector. But great wheel-to-wheel battles, I mean, it literally was wheel-to-wheel at least once.

“I don’t really have too much more to say about it. When you’re racing against a two-times World Champion, he probably is one of the hardest drivers but fair. I’d say today it was maybe a little bit over on the limit.”

Though Hamilton didn’t hold the same opinion during the race, as he called Alonso’s defence as dangerous, which for some was ironic citing Hamilton’s driving in Silverstone.

He surely did for his teammate.

Hamilton believes that Alonso showed extra determination against him for his teammate, and it was evident after Ocon and Alonso embraced each other at the paddock.

“I totally get it, and I would do the same for my team,” the British driver said.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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