The reports says that after the pitstops Alonso was faster and quickly closing the gap to Massa, while eventually catching him at the first gear hairpin on the long straight.

However, Massa held on to his position by adeptly defending the inside line.

This prompted Alonso to comment on the situation as “ridiculous”, indicating that the team must have radioed Massa about Alonso catching him, but the Brazilian still not giving up the position.

The team replied to Alonso that it could do nothing, hence Alonso, then dropped back nearly four seconds.

Alonso's engineer however told Alonso that the new gap was worrying, to which Alonso reportedly replied: “No problem, I will close up”.

It was this pace (of Alonso) relative to leader Massa that moved Ferrari to issue the team order.

However, a few media have potrayed Alonso as a complainer, and suggested that his reputation have been dented by the whole affair.

Alonso though told reporters in Hungary: “Of course it doesn’t affect me, not at all. I don’t think anything has changed for me or that anything will come back to me.

“Today when I arrived, the airport was full, also the hotel was full of people cheering for us, and these are the fans I saw so far,” added Alonso.

He said if the situation was the opposite, he would also play the team game.

“If the conditions were the same, with the tyres not working correcting etcetera... I would surely do the same, the team is the most important thing,” Alonso said.