Lewis Hamilton denies being friends with Nico Rosberg as gloves come off at Mercedes

The gloves have officially been taken off at Mercedes after an angry Lewis Hamilton denied that he was friends with Nico Rosberg in the wake of the German regaining the lead of the World Championship by winning the Monaco GP.

Pressed on the point

What Hamilton and Rosberg had to say in the post-race press conference... Lewis, obviously the momentum is broken for the moment. We heard you on the radio quite a lot after the safety car and the pit stops, questioning and speaking about the strategy calls. Obviously you pitted together under the safety car. Had there been a thought that you might try to undercut Nico before that? Can you explain to us what the conversation was about?
Hamilton: "I don't remember to be honest. I don't. I think they saw a crash and normally under the crash we could have come in and I really should have come in but the team didn't call us in. We really should have pitted that lap." A question for Nico and Lewis. We have seen that there is a pretty tense situation between the two of you and we also heard comments from Lauda saying you did not want to talk and apologise. Are you going to have a pizza together, a dinner, to sort the problems, talk about it and try to get the situation back to normal.
Rosberg: "It's fine. We've had discussions and the benefit we have is that we've known each other for so long. We always sit down and discuss it and then move on and that's what we're doing this weekend also."
Hamilton: "I don't really have an answer for you there." Niki Lauda said that in Barcelona you used an engine mode you were told not to and you had to apologise to Nico for that. Do you think that that mode would have helped you win the race today?
Hamilton: "No... today we were using all the modes. In the last race it was a mode that didn't really affect the outcome of the race. We were told that we had to stay in a certain mode. Nico did it in Bahrain and I did it in Barcelona. In this race we stuck to the strategies we had to stick."
Rosberg: "I don't know what Niki is referring to but it's completely normal that we switch modes together you know, we always do that in the races. It's nothing unusual." Lewis, yesterday you told the BBC that you might handle the situation with Nico like Senna would. What did you mean by that?
Hamilton: "I don't know. I can't really remember to be honest. I think it was just a joke. Obviously I didn't." I think you said on the radio that you had a problem with your eye in the closing stages. What happened there?
Hamilton: "I've never really had it before. I kept making sure my visor was as closed as possible but I had quite a bit of wind coming in. I got close to Nico at one stage and all of a sudden I got a bit of debris in my eye, or some dirt, so I was driving with one eye, which is virtually impossible to do and so through the low-speed corners I was trying to open up my visor to clear it up but it was just making it worse. Fortunately, I think with five laps to go it cleared up so I was able to stay ahead of Daniel." Last day Nico Rosberg was mentioning that the previous races were not one-to-one races, relating to the weather, because you were winning the races and this time he's winning the race and I want to know if you think this weekend is a one-to-one race for you?
Hamilton: "I'm still not fully understanding the question, but all the races have been very, very close but this weekend I think I had very good pace. I drove with all my heart and gave it all I could, fairly, and I feel like I drove fairly all weekend. So I leave today quite happy and I can go