Alonso thinks Magnussen is a wanker, Magnussen says Alonso acts like a god

Kevin Magnussen

Following their clash in qualifying Q2 Kevin Magnussen said Fernando Alonso "laughed in my face" and "thinks he's a god".

Alonso tried to pass Magnussen round the outside into the first chicane on the final lap in Q2, but the pair ended up scrapping for position and ruining each other's laps as they both missed out on a berth in the top 10 shootout.

The two-time champion laughed off the encounter on team radio and aimed derisive comments at Magnussen after the session, with the Haas driver now firing back.

"I don't care to speculate why he did it. I think it was just pretty stupid and not necessary," said Magnussen, who earlier this year compared Alonso's complaints to Neymar's diving in the 2018 football World Cup after they clashed in multiple sessions of the British Grand Prix.

"He thought he could have the perfect slipstream and overtake me. He gained – I don't know how many tenths – but you gain a lot if you do that.

"But I'm not going to let him pass me, and sacrifice my own lap. No way. I know he thinks he's a god, but no way."

Alonso "There are many classes of drivers and then there are the Haas ones, who have the third or fourth-best car of the grid and are out in Q2."

Alonso had pointed to Magnussen passing him on the out-lap as a cause of the incident, with the Haas driver offering his take.

"We were kind of six or eight cars, in a bit of a group," Magnussen recalled. "And at the exit of Ascari, Fernando was warming his brakes, I think, so not going fast.

"And I'm going fast, so I just cruised past him. But then for some reason he decides to try and accelerate and get close to me, rather than create a gap, as everyone else is doing.

"Obviously he got a perfect slipstream and thought he could overtake into Turn 1 – but I'd rather hang myself."

Asked about Alonso's jovial reaction on the radio, Magnussen said: "He came to me after qualifying and laughed to my face.

"Just outright disrespectful. I can't wait for him to retire."

"He literally thinks he's a god. It's pretty amusing."

Fernando Alonso

We were all running together at the end of the out-lap and with all that traffic one of the Haas cars decided to overtake and start the lap in the middle of all the cars that were more or less in position," said Alonso.

"So we started the lap together and we reached the first corner together and we ruined both our laps.

"There are many classes of drivers and then there are the Haas ones, who have the third or fourth-best car of the grid and are out in Q2.

"I got into Q2, which is one of the things that I wanted.

"It doesn't change much for me, I guess more for them, but it's fun, a lot of fun."

The stewards investigated the run-in after the session and called up both drivers, but ultimately ruled that the incident "did not specifically constitute unnecessary impeding by either driver."