Adrian Newey Believes Fernando Alonso, After 17 Years, Would Be a Different Teammate to Lewis Hamilton

has a reputation for being a hard competitor, which also makes him a very difficult teammate to deal with. Every team he’s driven for, he’s made life tough for his counterpart. But the most iconic inter team rivalry the Spaniard has endured was in 2007, when rookie joined him at McLaren. Advertisement The season was underlined by the torrid yet intense rivalry between Alonso and Hamilton.

In the end, Alonso left Woking because he felt that McLaren favored the Brit. It put a pause to the animosity. But if the duo was paired up once again today, would their alliance be ? Adrian Newey certainly doesn’t think so. Loading embed tweet https://twitter.com/Motorsport/status/1707301756726661564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Advertisement and F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast host, Tom Clarkson were pondering upon this exact question.

Newey. Red Bull’s design genius and the famed F1 journalist, both, agreed that the Spaniard has in fact down with age and experience. While Alonso may not be prone to his risible antics anymore, it is hard to believe that things would be cordial between the two given their previous and more recent history of on track scuffles.

The most explosive moments of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton’s rivalry in F1 Back in 2007, Hamilton, a rookie, was put up against a two time reigning world champion in the form of Alonso. Many believed that Alonso would easily get the better of Hamilton. Nothing could be farther from the truth as Hamilton gave Alonso a real run for his money.

In fact, he ended up finishing the season level on points with the ex Renault driver. With his pride hurt, Alonso wanted Hamilton to know who the number one man in the team was. Famously at the Hungarian GP, in the pit box during qualifying, to prevent him from getting a faster lap time in. This spoiled the relationship with them beyond repair (seemingly).

Loading embed tweet https://twitter.com/ameyaelnino/status/1563876883107745792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Advertisement But even after all these years, there was no love lost between Alonso and Hamilton. As recently as the 2022 Belgian GP, Hamilton and Alonso collided into Les Combes on the very first lap of the race which prompted Alonso to call Hamilton an and berate him on his radio comms.

Newey, however, with his experience feels things will be different if they were to drive for the same team now. For F1 fans, at least, it will be a very interesting duo. Advertisement.