Formula 1: World champion Fernando Alonso has "never felt totally comfortable" at McLaren since Lewis Hamilton was confirmed as his team-mate for the 2007 season.
Spanish racer Alonso joined McLaren from Renault after back-to-back drivers' championships but suggested he feels slightly sidelined by the arrival of a British driver at a British team.
Hamilton has so far outshone his team-mate, securing his first Formula One victory at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on Sunday and leading the drivers' championship by eight points in a sensational rookie season.
Alonso told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser: "Well, right from the start I've never felt totally comfortable.
"I have a British team-mate in a British team, and he's doing a great job and we know that all the support and help is going to him and I understood that from the beginning.
"But I'm not complaining. I've won two races out of six and I've finished on the podium four times and I have those 40 points that will allow me to fight for the title in the end."
Alonso is still convinced he can overhaul Hamilton and win a third straight drivers' crown.
"I'm calm, I'm fine, but I know there's a certain impatience to return to the top and dominate.
"But I'm second in the championship, I'm eight points behind. I would be worse if I were at Renault, or Honda or any other team.
"At the moment I am where I expected to be and with a clear chance of winning the title in Brazil, and not now, in the sixth race."
He also seemed to suggest that the British media were fickle and had over-reacted to Hamilton's success.
"I'm totally indifferent to that. Those are the same journalists and newspapers that, if the safety car had come out on lap 23 instead of lap 24 when Hamilton didn't have enough fuel for another lap, would not have been able to say anything.
"The Spanish press has more respect than the British press."