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Fernando Alonso gave McLaren staff 'envelopes stuffed with cash' in Lewis Hamilton row
Lewis Hamilton’s teammate, it has been claimed.Having won back-to-back F1 titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006, Alonso moved to McLaren, where he thought he would be team leader while young rookie Hamilton would be a dutiful number two. Of course, that is not how it panned as Hamilton produced arguably the greatest debut season in F1 history, winning four races and going agonisingly close to winning the title.As a result, Hamilton and Alonso feuded on and off the track with the atmosphere in the team turning increasingly toxic, to such an extent that the Spaniard left the team and returned to Renault at the end of the season.
