As the F1 season moves into a three week break before the Turkish Grand Prix, the aftermath of last weekends controversy is getting raked up and analysed by the press. Two camps have sprung up with very polarised views about who to demonise and who to canonise.

The Sun obviously loves Hamilton with the article “Hamilton Walks on Water” and they have decided to focus on Hamilton’s romantic entanglements on a well deserved yachting holiday with his pals.

It does appear there was more to the “mistake” that Hamilton made too. Although it was originally decided Alonso should be the first McLaren out of the pit lane in the final qualifying session as he is officially the lead driver for the team, Hamilton’s engine was quickest to reach optimum temperature. He left the garage first then refused to step aside as he was concerned about losing position to Raikonnen in the process.

Kevin Garside from the Telegraph writes:

“Lewis Hamilton left Budapest with 10 points in the bag and blood on the floor. Beneath the choirboy exterior lurks the executioner’s instinct. Rookie my foot. If anybody needs a hand holding over the closing stages of a season turning increasingly bitter it is Fernando Alonso, who felt the full force of Hamilton’s ambition at the Hungarian Grand Prix.”

“Alonso subsequently took his own retribution and paid the price. Rightly or wrongly, Hamilton forced through his own agenda and was not holding back after his third career win.”

I imagine it must be awful to be usurped by a young whippersnapper, especially when Alonso was expecting to enjoy a good few years at the top still to come. It’s natural that drivers at the top of their game are highly competitive, but it’s a shame when the competitiveness becomes unsportsmanlike. Alonso has already been seen to use underhand tactics to win races, such as the time he barged Ferrari’s Felipe Massa off the track at the French Grand Prix.

Over at the Alonso camp, after Nigel Mansell’s defence of Alonso yesterday, Eddie Irvine has came out blasting Hamilton’s “Arrogance”, referring to the colourful exchange between Hamilton and his boss Ron Dennis during qualifying.

Eurosport reports - Five years retired Irvine believes Hamilton is getting too big for his boots:
“The disrespect Lewis Hamilton showed to Ron Dennis was quite unbelievable in my opinion,”

Irvine told Virgin Media.

“Lewis is playing a particularly polished and clever game when it comes to appearing cleaner-than-clean to the media but his arrogance is starting to come out now.”

“Success is starting to go to his head and, whilst I challenge any man on the planet in his position not let it do so, the way both he and Alonso are behaving is beyond childish and the way he behaved in Hungary is beyond belief.”

Meanwhile Alonso’s manager has played down the idea that Alonso will actually quit Mclaren stating:

“We are in McLaren to win races and the third title.”That’s our goal. And in these moments there aren’t that many options: just McLaren and Ferrari.”

In the same way, unless something dramatic occurs at September’s spy row appeal in Paris, its unlikely Hamilton will leave Mclaren either.

So I guess they’ll just have to make up.