Mark Hughes: F1's Inside Line
"As Lewis steps down from the podium he meets his dad's eyes. Nothing is said, but each bursts out laughing"
FERNANDO ALONSO is extra-chilled these McLaren days. At the team's traditional season-opening Thursday lunch at Melbourne's Stoke House, there he stands, leaning back, chatting to anyone around him. Talking shop just as happily as shooting the breeze.
Then he's joined by Lewis Hamilton and the pair are like a couple of mates out together: still relaxed, pleased to see each other, bouncing their sparkle off each other, easy companions. They don't have the appearance of drivers forced to do a pr function, but of two young guys enjoying their fantastic lives.
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