Lewis Hamilton has accused Fernando Alonso of trying to run him off the track at the start of the Belgian GP.
McLaren team-mates at it again on the opening lap of Belgian GP
Lewis Hamilton has criticised McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Fernando Alonso after he was forced off the track by the world champion at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix.
Starting the Spa-Francorchamps race side-by-side on the second row of the grid, the two remained locked together at the La Source hairpin.
Alonso then shut the door on his rookie team-mate, forcing Hamilton off the track, before the latter gamely - and unsuccessfully - tried to snatch third place once more on the run down to Eau Rouge.
Hamilton subsequently labelled the first move "hard", adding that it was not behaviour he expected from a double world champion - not to mention a driver he lablled as one quick to complain when on the receiving end of such treatment.
Fair and square?
"I wouldn't say fair, but it was hard," Hamilton told
Autosport.
"The guy on the outside doesn't always have the corner. I don't know whether I was ahead, but there was enough room for us all to get round fair and square.
"I just feel for someone that's always complaining about people doing unfair manoeuvres, and everyone wanting to be fair and someone I look up to, and he has gone and swiped me and pushed me as wide as he could. I was just really lucky there was a run-off area so I could take that.
"At Eau Rouge it's impossible to take two Formula One cars through there without taking each other out, so I just lifted."
