MOSCOW, Sep 1 Spanish driver of the Formula 1 team Alpin Fernando Alonso has apologized to Briton Lewis Hamilton, who competes in the «royal races» for Mercedes, for calling him an idiot after a collision at the Belgian Grand Prix. The incident occurred on the first lap of Sunday's race. As a result of the accident, both riders were off the track, and Hamilton's car partially rose into the air, after which it crashed to the ground. After the incident, Alonso called the Briton «an idiot» and «a racer who can only start from the first position» by radio with his team. Hamilton later admitted that he was responsible for the accident. «First of all, it's Lewis, he is a champion, a legend of our time, and when you say something — and I'm sorry to repeat it — against a British driver, then there is a huge resonance in the press. They said a lot of things to Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz, me — if you say something to a Latin American racer, everything becomes a little more fun. If you say it to Lewis, then it's a little more serious, «GPFans quoted Alonso as saying. «But yes, I'm sorry «I feel… I didn't think about what I said. At that moment, honestly, it wasn't much of his fault. If you look at the replays, it was the first round, we were all very close to each other,» added the Spaniard. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has acknowledged that it was a racing incident and will not sanction Hamilton for the accident with Alonso.
