Italy's fickle but usually patriotic press has sided with Fernando Alonso after the European Grand Prix.
The Spaniard beat Ferrari's Felipe Massa to the flag at the Nurburgring after a late wheel-banging dice, earning the description 'Super Alonso' in the famous sports daily
La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Super Alonso gives Massa a lesson," said the publication, also rebuking Massa for reacting badly to McLaren driver Alonso's surly word to the Brazilian as they waited to mount the podium.
Massa, in Italian, angrily hit back at Alonso, who had accused him of deliberately making contact with his McLaren's left sidepod in the scrap for the win.
Several publications printed transcripts of their verbal quarrel, in which Massa told Alonso to
"f--k off."
He said:
"You have got to learn how to f--king drive properly."
La Gazzetta dello Sport observed:
"No one can justify (Massa's) exaggerated reaction to Alonso's criticism.
Without his problems with the tyres, he probably could have held Alonso off, but one has to say that in the rain he is not the best."
After getting out of his McLaren Mercedes at the end of the race, Alonso had asked the live TV cameraman to move closer as he pointed towards the damage inflicted to the side of his car by Massa's contact.
Alonso then waved a finger back and forth as if to say 'you shouldn't do that,' a gesture directly aimed at his rival, which surely fired up Massa's subsequent bad temper and led to the verbal scuffle right before the podium ceremony.
D.B. © CAPSIS International
Source GMM 
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