Last night and this morning on the radio I was surprised to hear that the latest manufactured row surrounding Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and McLaren was the top story in the sport bulletins. I don’t recall it being the top story when Alonso said a similar thing the last time he lost to his then team mate, Giancarlo Fisichella.

Alonso has form in this area. We know he gets miffed when he loses to his team mate. But that does not happen often — he is not used to being behind. When he was at Renault he once complained that he felt alone. But no driver can win back-to-back World Championships without the full and unqualified backing of their team.

As for Alonso’s comment that Hamilton’s win was lucky, this is little more than a statement of fact. In any race that is interrupted so many times by safety cars, luck plays a big role. You only need to take a look at the race result to realise this. Just compare finishing positions with each driver’s grid position.

Kovalainen and Wurz came from the back to the front, largely down to pure luck. For similar reasons, if Hamilton had pitted just a couple of laps before he did, he would have found himself finishing around 5^th.

But it would not surprise me at all if Alonso’s comments were taken out of context. There are clearly a lot of journalists who are eager to get a juicy story about the relationship between Alonso and Hamilton. Quite rightly, most of them fall flat, like this interview with Lewis Hamilton.

We are now in a situation where a known trait of Alonso’s — to search for a reason to explain why he loses — has allowed the media to kid on that Alonso and Hamilton are warring with each other.

Just two short weeks ago McLaren were accused of favouring Fernando Alonso over Lewis Hamilton. This week they are accused of doing the opposite. Can not the media make up its mind?

The claims made following the Monaco Grand Prix were laughable. Why would a Formula 1 team spend ten years nurturing a talent and taking him under their wing, only to mess up his career once he finally gets into an F1 car?

Equally, there is no way that an F1 team would spend lots of money wooing the biggest name in F1, a double World Champion, only to thwart it all by giving a rookie preferential treatment. And Lewis Hamilton is a rookie, and not the second coming of Ayrton Senna, despite what the media appears to think.

Besides, not even Senna was Senna six races into his career. A reputation is built over a long period of time. Anything else is just hype.

I guess this is what we have to live with now that a Brit happens to be in a position to win races. Clueless journalists who appear to know bugger all about F1 are disseminating untruths through the media.

It really makes me wonder about the MSM. When they are talking about something that I know about, it is obvious that they are talking arrant bullcrap. Yet, I depend on them to get my information on subjects that I do not know about. I am not so confident that I should rely so much on the media any more.

Why do journalists expect team mates to be at each other’s throats anyway? They are team mates. If a footballer kicked a team mate in the bollocks, he would be condemned for it. If an F1 driver doesn’t kick his team mate in the bollocks, he is condemned for it.

How about this radical idea for the media to consider? Maybe when a driver wins a race it is because he won the race, and not due to some conspiracy.