Would Ferrari do this......?

That was 7 weeks ago, so who knows. Did Alonso meet with them at subsequent races?

 

No. They'd never let him run WEC and F1 at the same time. They need new blood, not to keep pulling in old hats.

 

Surely Nando would trade WEC for a competitive F1 car.

yup.

 

Can't see Ferrari opening their wallet and spend an extra 30+ million and create tension and toxic environment. There's 2 things that'll happen:

1) Alonso proves to be the faster driver, rendering 50 million spend on Vettel totally pointless

2) they are as fast as each other and go tit for tat each weekend. There will be crashes. There will be toys thrown from prams. Mercedes will scoop up all those points and laugh themselves to another championship.

It'll be the dumbest, most self destructing thing ferrari can do.

 

I stopped reading at "Briatore is adamant..." Briatore should have prevented Alonso from doing a desperate last minute deal with a team of unknown quality. Probably he was more interested in getting his % of that lucrative deal than in Alonso´s chances.

Now, with Vettel already under contract for two more years and Leclerc in the waiting room, I think it´s too late.

 

I bloody hope not !!!!

How many times Alonso needs to "visit" teams in his career?

Renault twice, McLaren twice, and now Ferrari again ?

That would be a sick joke, IMO.

Whoever would sign him at the Scuderia needs his head examined !

 

I would stop supporting the Scuderia is this happened. It would be inexcusable.

 

Exactly. Why would they open their wallet to give $30 millions a year for a 37 year old driver who isn't exactly easy to handle, when they could have had Daniel the Smiling Australian, 8 years younger, for 50% less than that? And they decided not to, because $ 20 million a year was "too expensive". Come on: this rumor of Fernando's return at Ferrari is all Briatore's usual certified B.S. Whatever Flavio is trying, the plain facts are that Fernando is left with a very easy choice: either continue at McLaren, or retire from F1 and drive something else. There is no other option open to him.

Rgds

 

Alonso & his manager have had pretty lousy timing in choosing teams, unlike Hamilton.
Alonso would have done very well in the 2017 Ferrari.

 

This idea is ridiculous. LeClerc seems like the one to consider.

 

" Like you make your bed, you lay in it "

Alonso has made disastrous choices in his career, and now lives with the conséquences; he is on no F1 team Wish List.

His nemesis Hamilton gathered '4 titles since they shared the same team, back in 2007 !!!

 

"Time waits for no-one"...partly through sheer bad luck (Petrov at Abu Dhabi in 2010, the strike made by Grosjean at Spa in 2012...), partly through bad-timed moves, now it is what it is: too late.
Flavio may agitate himself as much as he wants, and try to keep us spellbound, it's only theatre; truth is, the train has left the station.

(Not that it makes me happy: Fernando is the quintessential racer, this I have no trouble to acknowledge, and he would deserve to win one or two more; but...it's too late; and: no Flavio, I don't believe a word, Fernando's return to Ferrari will not happen)

Rgds

 

100%

 

Yep. There is only one alternative to Kimi and that is Leclerc.

Let's not forget Leclerc has been making quite a few mistakes in the car this year (even in his great weekends). This is not a criticism, he's at Sauber precisely to learn to erase such mistakes. He and Ferrari will not lose anything by letting him learn for another year. Kvyat, Perez, Magnussen...just a small example of a long list of drivers that where promoted too early and it backfired.

I love the kid, and I'd hate to see his career destroyed if he makes a couple of high profile mistakes that sees him bumped out of Ferrari.

 

Sounds like 2016

 

Which will be great if Ferrari builds a car so good the opposition doesn't have a hope in hell to challenge.

Pretty unlikely to happen, though.

 

+1 sad to say, I am a big Alonso fan.

 

The annals of F1 are littered with truly great drivers who never won a championship.

 

And a bunch of mediocre drivers who have won.

 

Like who ?

 

Damon Hill.

 

I wouldn't call Damon Hill a "mediocre" driver, although I would accept that he wasn't the top driver of his era.
D.Hill wasn't comfortable fighting Wheel-to-Wheel with an opponent, that is certain and would yield too easily.
But he was a fast driver and an excellent tester. He usually qualified well, and exploited his car advantage very astutely, I thought.
I think that, like his father, Damon Hill had to work hard to race: he wasn't a natural like Schumacher, for example.
It's a pity that Frank Williams had already dedided to sack him when he was on his way to the title; but Williams always was controversial with his drivers.

 

You need to watch the 90's again.

 

There have been drivers that always seemed to make the move to the right team (Fangio) and those who've made the move to the wrong team (Amon). So today's situation is nothing new.