Fernando Alonso left absolutely furious with Lewis Hamilton in unheard Singapore Grand Prix radio

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Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso and Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton ended up in an unlikely dogfight on the final lap of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton looked like he was going to finish as the leading Ferrari for the second race in a row after his controversial finish to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Hamilton failed to allow Charles Leclerc past on the final lap in Baku, and, after a slow start to the Singapore Grand Prix, switched to the alternate two-stop strategy.

It allowed Hamilton to try and attack Andrea Kimi Antonelli on the soft tyres, and once again Leclerc let his teammate by to try and help Ferrari in the constructors’ championship.

However, as soon as Hamilton caught the Italian, his brakes failed, and suddenly he was in damage limitation mode.

Leclerc quickly re-took sixth place, and Fernando Alonso would have wondered whether he had a chance of overturning a 45-second gap in the space of just a few laps.

The Aston Martin driver ended up just 0.4 seconds behind the seven-time world champion, but his radio message after the race suggested that he wasn’t happy with how Hamilton held onto P7.

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Fernando Alonso couldn’t ‘believe’ how Lewis Hamilton stayed ahead of him at the Singapore Grand Prix

The manner in which Hamilton stayed ahead of the Spanish driver didn’t go down well in the cockpit of the leading Aston Martin.

Alonso had already told his race engineer to stop talking to him halfway through the race as his frustration grew, but as Hamilton sped up towards the end of the final lap, the 44-year-old said: “I can’t believe it. Is it safe to drive without brakes?

“You can’t drive like that. As if you were alone on the track, listen.

“Yesterday, they didn’t respect the red flag yesterday, and today it’s a free track for them.

“Sometimes they try to disqualify me for not having a rearview mirror, and now, without brakes, everything’s fine. Is it? I doubt it.”

Unsurprisingly, Hamilton was awarded a five-second penalty for his antics, with the explanation from the stewards stating: “During the hearing, the driver confirmed that he left the track on several occasions. He was trying to manage a brake issue situation.

“This being said, after further investigation, and in accordance with the list of exemptions foreseen in the Driving Standards Guidelines, the Stewards considered that this was not a justifiable reason and applied the usual penalty for such a type of infringement. This was not contested by the team representative nor the driver.”

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Fernando Alonso reacts to the Singapore Grand Prix after winning Driver of the Day

Alonso was voted Driver of the Day by Formula 1 fans after initially finishing as the best of the rest before being promoted above Hamilton.

He admitted that didn’t normally happen unless you finished on the podium, but praised the battles he had throughout the race in his post-session media duties.

In his interview with Formula 1’s official website, Alonso said: “It was a very good race for us.

“The car was fast, the car felt fast. We opened up a nice gap with the soft tyre, which lasted longer than we expected, so that was very good news.

“A slow pit stop, but the car was still very fast in the stint and we finished in the same position, so yeah, some fun battles as well.

“Singapore, it’s never easy to overtake, but as I said, I had an advantage on the tyre as well.

“Everyone fitted the hards on the second stint, but we fitted the medium, so that was a good call from the team, and I had this tyre advantage that gave me the opportunity to overtake.”