Per Autosport: Alonso contacted Ron Dennis prior to Hockenheim with the desire to do a mid season swap with Raikkonen. Apparently both drivers were OK with the switch, but after a series of McLaren meetings, it was decided not to contact Renault with the idea. Alonso was very unhappy with Briatore's attitude. It is reported that he tried to convince Alonso to breach his McLaren contract. At this time, Raikkonen had already signed with Ferrari so his tenure at Renault would have been for 7-8 races. He would not have stayed with Renault for 2007. Can you imagine the way the WDC would have changed? MS would have cruised to his 8th.
Sounds really unlikely. Regardless of Briatore's attitude, FA would be jerking himself out of the title. Plus there was no way Ferrari would let Kimi do anything of the sort if he was already signed.
Renault released a statement that this is BS as well. Very unlikely, he was in the running for the title from day 1, why would he want to jeopordize that trying to learn a new car?
How doeas the rule work? Does a driver get to take his points with him if he changes teams mid-season?
No... he would forefit his points with the other team... back in the 50's it would have worked, but the constructors points would have also been gone.. I think its one of the first articles in the sporting code...
i really don;t believe this. even if FA really had swapped, Flav would still be his manager. where's he's gonna run to?
No, its not. I didn't make this up, I am just the messenger. As I stated, this came directly from Autosport. For those of you with more wisdom than knowledge, go to www.autosport.com, and look in the grapevine section dated Nov 9. Read for yourselves. And honestly, they seem to be more right more often than most anyone on FChat.
Ferrari needs to somehow convince Favio to come run its F1 team. He is the perfect Italian for the job IMHO...
