Double world champion Fernando Alonso has revealed that the 2007 F1 season was a critical campaign in his F1 career and has described Lewis Hamilton entrance into Formula 1 like a tsunami.

The Spaniard was Hamilton’s first F1 team-mate at McLaren in 2007. The rookie Hamilton finishing on the podium in his debut, and the Brit finished runner-up in the 2007 World Drivers’ Championship to Kimi Räikkönen by one point.

During the 2007 season, Hamilton and Alonso were involved in a number of incidents which resulted in conflicts between both drivers and the team, ending in Alonso and McLaren terminating their deal by mutual consent in November.

“[2007] was a very important season for me,” Alonso told Sky Sports. “Lewis Hamilton came into Formula 1 like a tsunami with all of his talent, and all of his abilities and results – immediately results. That was intense and that was also challenging for everybody.

“Looking back, and I think Lewis will think the same, we had no issues between us, no problems. We had a very tough competition, but fair.”

Alonso concluded, “Honestly, I think, and probably he agrees, the team didn’t handle the situation. I don’t want to blame Ron [Dennis], I don’t want to blame any particular name, but as a team, as a management, we were too young. We were too ambitious and nobody guided us in a way.”

The Spaniard also revealed his target to become one of the “most complete drivers in the world”.

“I have the ambition now to keep conquering different targets,” Alonso stated.

“The Indy 500 is still a very appealing one, [the] Dakar Rally, different categories, and [I] try to be one of the most complete drivers in the world, in motorsport.

“On the personal side, to become a father one day, to have your own family. There are always things that you have to fulfil and I am in that part of my life now.”