The latest war of words between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso blew up at Valencia. Jonathan Noble explains why they're both right to fight their corners

I don't profess to be an expert on 19th century German poetry - in fact I couldn't tell you the first thing about German poetry from any era - but I did share some affinity after Valencia with a quote that popped up on a search engine from German poet and dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel.

He wrote: "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

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