Oct.8 (GMM) Ron Dennis on Sunday had to defend his reaction on the pitwall as Lewis Hamilton's championship hopes became stuck in a gravel trap.

Members of the Spanish press pointed out to the McLaren boss in Shanghai that, while he reacted with visible despair to the British rookie's predicament in the pit entry, he hardly batted an eyelid a week earlier when Fernando Alonso crashed heavily at Fuji.

"When Fernando had his accident, the car was destroyed. There was nothing anyone could do," Dennis told Spanish journalists in China.

"You always chose to see only one side of things," he added, scolding the partisanship of Alonso's home media.

Dennis vigorously denied claims that, although luck fell Alonso's way in Shanghai, the Spaniard might face another uphill struggle at the 2007 championship finale.

"Have you seen anything that would make you think otherwise?" Dennis countered. "There is nothing," he added, also denying rumours that Alonso's tyre pressures in Japan, and perhaps also in qualifying in China, had been doctored by the team.

"The tyre pressures were completely correct," he insisted, "and Lewis' lap was just very good -- that is all.

"We will always be able to demonstrate that our actions are correct and impartial," Dennis continued.

The McLaren principal refused to answer questions about Alonso's questionable future at the team, but he said: "We are not comfortable if one of our drivers is uncomfortable."