McLaren Mercedes played dirty tactics to allow Alonso’s win?
Many online bookmakers have temporarily suspended all betting on the outcome of the F1 World Championship after the announcement that there will be an investigation into reported ‘team-tactics’ which prevented Lewis Hamilton from challenging team-mate Fernando Alonso in the final stages of the Monaco Grand Prix.
“Although the ‘podium finish’ result is the one which bookmakers will use to settle bets on the outcome of the Grand Prix itself, any subsequent punishment to teams or individual drivers will count for World Championship betting purposes,” said European sportsbooks spokesman Graham Sharpe. 
“Hamilton and Alonso were the best backed drivers in the race but even without drivers’ orders if you had opened a book on the final few laps Hamilton would have been big odds against to overtake his team-mate on the Monte Carlo track on which it is notoriously difficult to pass.
“Hamilton has been the best thing to happen to F1 betting since Nigel Mansell arrived on the scene and he might well prove to be just as successful.”
It was not what he said that hit home, it was his deflated air as he said it. This was another key moment in the drama of this fascinating season and it felt like a watershed in Hamilton’s fledgeling career.
“At the end of the day I’m a rookie,” he said. “I am in my first season and I have finished second in my first Monaco Grand Prix, so I can’t really complain. But to see that I am of similar pace to Fernando is a positive for me. But it is something I have to live with.”
Then, in a summary of his position that will only fuel speculation that Alonso has pulled rank on his young team mate and that the pecking order at McLaren is set, Hamilton said: “I’ve got No 2 on my car. I am the No 2 driver.”
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