Lewis Hamilton brilliantly mocked F1 rival Fernando Alonso’s X-rated outburst at the Singapore Grand Prix after he failed to overtake the Brit’s stricken Ferrari, which had a critical brake problem

Lewis Hamilton hilariously mocked Fernando Alonso(Image: LAT Images)
Lewis Hamilton took a hilarious swipe at F1 rival Fernando Alonso after his explicit outburst at the Singapore Grand Prix.

In the closing laps of the race around the Marina Bay Circuit, Hamilton suffered a major brake failure and saw his once-comfortable gap over Alonso quickly diminish as the Aston Martin veteran chased Hamilton to the line.

Hamilton’s stricken Ferrari was able to make it across the finish line ahead of Alonso in P7, despite his old Spanish foe carving into a 48-second deficit to be on Hamilton’s gearbox by the final corner.

The seven-time world champ had been pursuing Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli for P5 just two laps from the end of the race before he had to manage the critical brake issue.

Woman at centre of Christian Horner scandal ‘paid millions to leave Red Bull’
Glam racing driver aiming to bring ‘new dynamic’ as first woman FIA president
Hamilton was noted for cutting the corner multiple times in the last lap as he desperately attempted to crawl over the line ahead of Alonso, something that the 44-year-old spotted and raged about down the radio at the end of the race.
The seven-time world champ had been pursuing Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli for P5 just two laps from the end of the race before he had to manage the critical brake issue.

Woman at centre of Christian Horner scandal ‘paid millions to leave Red Bull’
Glam racing driver aiming to bring ‘new dynamic’ as first woman FIA president
Hamilton was noted for cutting the corner multiple times in the last lap as he desperately attempted to crawl over the line ahead of Alonso, something that the 44-year-old spotted and raged about down the radio at the end of the race.

Fernando Alonso was extremely unhappy with Lewis Hamilton in Singapore(Image: Zak Mauger, Getty Images)
He fumed: “I cannot f****** believe it. I mean, I cannot f****** believe it. I cannot f****** believe it. Is it safe to drive with no brakes?

“For me, you cannot drive when the car is unsafe. Sometimes they try to disqualify me with no mirror, and now you have no brakes and everything is fine? I doubt it.”

Hamilton was ultimately stripped of his P7 finish after he was summoned to the stewards and slapped with a five-second time penalty, promoting Alonso to P7 and relegating the Brit to P8.

Hamilton poked fun at Alonso by compiling videos of One Foot in the Grave’s Victor Meldrew
Clearly not overly upset about losing one place in Singapore and two points, Hamilton took a cheeky swipe at his former McLaren team-mate.

Captioning the video “18 years of”, Hamilton shared a compilation of British comedy One Foot in the Grave, in which the main character Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, continuously exclaims: “I don’t believe it!”
Hamilton and Alonso’s rivalry dates back 18 years when the Brit finished second in the 2007 Drivers’ Championship in his rookie season, ahead of back-to-back world champion Alonso on countback.

Both finished level on points after a tension-packed year, one point behind world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Their fierce rivalry that season came to a head when the Spaniard deliberately delayed Hamilton in the pit lane, costing him a final flying lap during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, seeing Alonso and the team given penalties.

Alonso has since acknowledged that he and Hamilton were never going to be friends, but the pair both share a mutual respect for each other’s talent and achievements in the following years.