Alonso Declines Ferrari 2009?


By Kristien Barker
January 4 2009

Reports in the Spanish media claim that Renault star Fernando Alonso has turned down a late switch to Ferrari ahead of the 2009 season. Alonso continues to have constant speculation linking him with the Italian based outfit and in the past has made no effort to squash the speculation

Diario AS a spanish newspaper claim that the Ferrari squad were prepared to release Kimi Raikkonen and gain Alonso's services. Raikkonen had a season to forget in 2008 and was outperformed by brazilian team mate Filippe Massa who just lost out on the 2009 title to lewis hamilton on the last corner of the last race of the season.

Alonso is rumoured to have turned down the drive out of respect to the Renault F1 team as this would have placed them in a difficult situation with testing and developments ongoing on the 2009 car and with a rookie in the second drivers seat.

 "in short, the Italian team's sudden interest came too late for Fernando," Claimed Diario AS.

 

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Alonso Declines Ferrari 2009?
Discussion started by Renault Rockets (IP Logged), 04/01/2009 20:05
Renault Rockets
Renault Rockets
04/01/2009 20:05
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70s fan
70s fan
05/01/2009 18:26
Loyalty and Alonso are words that only go together in Spain. he had no problem sticking a knife into Renault a few years ago and turned attempted blackmailer at McLaren. But in Spain you best not say that sort of thing.

The trouble with this story is that at the time he was supposedly deciding not to race for Ferrari out of loyalty to Renault he had been talking to a number of teams including Honda. Only much later was it announced he would be staying at Renault.

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Gerhard Pretorius
Gerhard Pretorius
10/01/2009 14:06
Ferrari need Vettel.He is still hungry for the championship with a longer F1 career ahead.

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Duffer
Duffer
12/01/2009 11:02
Vettel is almost, but not quite proven. If he can beat Webber I think he is the real deal. If he can't, he'll probably struggle on.

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Fisichella
Kristien
12/01/2009 12:16
im excited to see vettel up against Webber next season. i rate webber highly so i think it will be a great battle

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