Fernando Alonso “completely underestimated” Lewis Hamilton ahead of their single season as McLaren F1 team-mates in 2007.
That is the belief of former Red Bull and McLaren driver David Coulthard, who says the pair “fell out” pretty quickly after Alonso discovered that he would not receive preferential treatment over Hamilton.
Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton ‘fell out pretty early’
Alonso and Hamilton spent a year as McLaren team-mates in 2007 in one of the most explosive seasons in F1 history.
The pair finished on level on 109 points with four wins apiece as both Hamilton and Alonso missed out on the title by a single point to Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
McLaren, meanwhile, were disqualified from the…