F1 legend Damon Hill says Fernando Alonso is “on his best behaviour” after he “lost a lot of friends"
Alonso rejoined McLaren in 2015 as they teamed up with Japanese manufa🌠cturer Honda - renewing the iconic p🐼artnership from the 1980s.
It proved to be a complete disaster, with McLaren and Honda separating at the e𒐪nd of 2017.
Alonso left the team a yea🍷r later, but his relationship with Honda particularly took a beating.
During the 2015 Japanese Grand Prix - Honda’s home race - Alonso faཧmously said: "It feels like GP2. Embarrassing. Very embarrassing.”
Hill believes Alonso’s comments affected his relationship with a number of teams, but now at Aston Martin in F1 2023, “he’s on his best behaviour”.
“He overplayed his hand at McLaren, and then he did something similar at Ferrari,” Hill told the F1 Nation podcast.
“He in༒sulted Honda because he called it a GP2 engine, he lost a lot of friends. I think he's had an epiphany.
“A bit of a turnaround, he's come back and gone 'Listen, ok𒊎ay, I get it now I've upset people. It's hurt my career🧜, I've only got two world championships when I should have four or five'.
“He's on his best behaviour,” he added. “Or maybe he's a changed man. I like to t♕hink it's the latter, I think he has changed, matured and became a massive asset to the sport.”
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