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Fernando Alonso says “it would be nice” for him and Lewis Hamilton to end their Formula 1 careers in the same team.
Lewis Hamilton’s Formula 1 career started in 2007 with McLaren, with two-time reigning world champion Fernando Alonso as his team-mate.
The two drivers had a heated rivalry throughout the year, and ended the season equal on points. However, when asked by the Daily Mail if he would welcome Hamilton as his team-mate again, Alonso said he would “love that”.
“It would be nice to end our careers together, I’d love that,” the Spaniard said.
Alonso added that their 2007 rivalry had more to do with what he perceives as poor team management, than their own personal issues.
“We had a difficult season, but we respected what the other was doing on track and still do.
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“We each consider the other to be a talented driver and one of the toughest competitors we have ever met.
“The situation that season was not well-managed by our bosses. We were young. We were immature.
“We were many of the things we are not now, and we needed help from the management that we didn’t get.
“I couldn’t continue with McLaren. It was a team with eyes totally one side of the garage.
“As Ron [Dennis, team principal at the time] said after the penultimate race in China: ‘Our race isn’t with [Felipe] Massa, it is with Fernando’.
“When your team says that, you cannot continue. But you learn in a career,” Alonso concluded.
