Apr.7 (GMM) Pat Symonds mocked the dubious credentials of those experts who decried the Lewis Hamilton incident on Sunday as a 'brake test' by his former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso.



"They're not as expert as they think," said Renault's engineering chief.



He was armed with telemetry print-outs from Alonso's R28 single seater, showing that the Spaniard was hard on the throttle when Hamilton hit him during the Bahrain grand prix.



"So all I can say from our side is there's no blame attributable to Fernando, which is what some of the speculation might be," Symonds added.



The Spanish daily Diario AS took a harder line than simply exonerating Alonso of blame, by headlining that the 26-year-old was the "victim of Hamilton's stupidity".



Neither driver, however, turned on one another in any serious way, despite their spectacular falling out as teammates last year.



"The incident doesn't make much sense to me, but thankfully it didn't affect my race too much," Alonso told the Spanish press corps.