Lewis Hamilton reacts to Fernando Alonso comments about value of his seven titles

Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton were McLaren team-mates successful 2007

Lewis Hamilton has reacted to his aged rival Fernando Alonso questioning the worth of immoderate of his championships.

Hamilton past posted a representation connected societal media from 2007, erstwhile helium and Alonso were McLaren team-mates, with him connected apical of a podium and Alonso second.

The seven-time champion posted a thumbs up awesome with the photograph.

Alonso had tried to trim the interaction of his comments with a station connected Twitter connected Saturday.

He wrote: "Please, each the titles are amazing, good deserved and inspiring. Incomparable to each different and let's bask champions and legends of our existent time.

"Tired of the continuous hunt for headlines. Let's bask them."

Hamilton made his debut successful F1 successful 2007 and helium and Alonso staged a adjacent and sometimes bitter fight. Both ended up losing retired to Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen by a azygous point.

At the extremity of the season, Hamilton and Alonso were tied connected points and some had 4 wins, but Hamilton was declared up successful the title by virtuousness of having much 2nd places.

Hamilton's Twitter station was a effect to the societal media absorption to Alonso's interview, successful which helium compared his ain 2 satellite titles successful 2005 and 2006 with those of Max Verstappen this twelvemonth and last, against Hamilton's record-equalling seven.

Alonso said: "This twelvemonth Max is precise ascendant and astatine immoderate constituent helium was capable to cruise to the satellite title. Last play it was different. I thought helium outperformed Lewis successful the extremity and I deliberation helium is simply a worthy champion.

"I besides person a batch of respect for Lewis. Still, it's antithetic erstwhile you triumph 7 satellite titles, erstwhile you've lone had to combat with your team-mate.

"Then I deliberation that a title has little worth than if you person less titles but you person had to vie against different drivers with adjacent oregon adjacent amended material.

"In 2005 and 2006, I had a bully commencement to the twelvemonth and I was capable to make a lead. Then others whitethorn person had a amended car, but I was capable to negociate that gap.

"I ne'er had to combat with my team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella to triumph the title. I besides didn't spot Max combat Sergio Perez oregon Alex Albon to triumph races.

"But [Michael] Schumacher chiefly fought with his team-mate Rubens Barrichello to go champion 5 times successful a enactment and Hamilton with Nico Rosberg and Valtteri Bottas. That's different, I think."

Alonso's comments are a questionable mentation of immoderate of the titles won by Schumacher and Hamilton.

Schumacher and Ferrari dominated successful 2001, 2002 and 2004 and the German operator had lone his team-mate to beat, but successful 2003 helium had a adjacent combat with McLaren's Raikkonen and Williams' Juan Pablo Montoya.

And portion it is simply a just remark to accidental Mercedes were unbeatable from 2014 to 2016 and successful 2019-20, successful 2017 and 2018 the Ferrari was arguably the quicker car for the bulk of some seasons.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel's led the title for overmuch of some of those years, lone for his rubric run to beryllium undermined by mistakes from some operator and team, arsenic good arsenic problems with reliability and losing the improvement warfare precocious successful the year.