Cracks showing at McLaren?

So I found it extremely interesting to hear today that yet again Lewis Hamilton has taken to Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Following yesterday's Japanese GrandPrix the Briton took to his account to accuse current team mate Jenson Button of unfollowing him and following his new team mate Sergio Perez instead.

Hamilton had to back track on his comment later when he discovered that Jenson had never followed him on Twitter. This is just another example of how in my opinion the relationship between Jenson and Lewis has begun to break down. For example a number of races ago Lewis tweeted a picture of the two driver's telemetry feeds, which is something that you just do not do. It was a crazy situation and he wasn't punished by the team at all.

I just find it interesting as the McLaren team have always said that the relationship between their two driver's has always been a very strong one but now that Hamilton has taken to Twitter to give out about Jenson I believe that all is not as rosy as it once was at the team.

It is going to be extremely interesting to se what happens within the team over the next five races and whether or not Jenson helps Lewis in the championship as Lewis has fallen further behind Sebastian Vettel following the German's win yesterday and Alosno still leads the championship by four points with five races remaining.

If I was the boss of McLaren, or indeed their media person, I would sit the two driver's down in particular Lewis and say to him 'listen you have five races left with us and for the sake of team unity and the championship stop taking to Twitter and criticizing the team and your team mate. Enjoy your last races with the team and focus on the goal at hand of winning the championship and leave any personal feeling's you have about the team at the door.

It is not the first time that Lewis Hamilton has been caught up in controversy in his own team. In 2007, at the height of the Spygate scandal Hamilton was accused of having knowledge of what was going on.

In 2009, following the Australian GrandPrix, Hamilton was disqualified from the race after he was found to have mislead the race stewards and as a result he was into making a very public apology and it also resulted in the sacking of Dave Ryan, who had been one of the longest serving members of the McLaren team.

In my opinion, when Hamilton moves to Mercedes he should keep his head down and get on with the job. I think possibly part of the problem with Hamilton is the fact that he has been associated with McLaren for so long that he has become complacent in his thinking and believes that he has can say what he wants. However that is just my opinion.