There is a fantastic interview with Fernando Alonso in the Gazzetta dello Sport today, in which he gently moves closer to talking about Ferrari and his possible move there.
According to Pino Allievi, the number one writer on the paper, Alonso has moved to a house on the border between Switzerland and Italy, near Lugano. He [...]
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Alonso starts talking about Ferrari
Posted in Alonso, Monaco, Race Weekend, tagged F1, Fernando Alonso on May 23, 2009 | 42 Comments »
Alonso says driving Monaco is ’stressful’
Posted in Alonso, F1 News, Race Weekend, tagged F1, Fernando Alonso on May 21, 2009 | 25 Comments »
I caught up with Fernando Alonso this afternoon at his press briefing in the Renault motorhome. He’s one of the few drivers to do this session on the first day of practice.
I was interested to hear how good it felt to be back on the streets here, brushing the barriers, feeling that unique adrenalin rush [...]
Briatore talks about Alonso and Ferrari
Posted in Alonso, Ferrari, tagged Alonso, Briatore, F1, Ferrari on March 3, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Little snippet caught my eye today in the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.
Flavio Briatore was on Italian radio, talking about the stories that Alonso has already signed for Ferrari for 2011 (with an option to drive in 2010 if Raikkonen has another poor season). If you want to learn more about this story, by the [...]
Superfit Alonso aims high
Posted in Alonso, Drivers, Renault, tagged Alonso, Renault on January 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It’s been a busy couple of days in the F1 world, with three car launches and some more rhetoric in the escalating war of words between Bernie Ecclestone and the F1 teams association, FOTA.
Let’s start with Renault. Fernando Alonso says he can win the championship with this car, he’s ecstatic about the wind tunnel figures, [...]
It’s out! Alonso has a Ferrari contract
Posted in Alonso, Drivers, Ferrari, tagged Alonso, Ferrari on December 29, 2008 | 37 Comments »
Formula 1 is setting itself up for a great on-track rivalry to match the classic Senna-Prost duel of the early 1990s.
My good friend and colleague Pino Allievi is writing in La Gazetta dello Sport in Italy that Fernando Alonso has a four year contract with Ferrari starting 2011, but with clauses which allow that [...]
Hamilton and Alonso bury the hatchet
Posted in Alonso, Drivers, Hamilton, tagged Alonso, Hamilton on November 9, 2008 | 20 Comments »
I note that at the recent Mercedes Stars and Cars bash in Stuttgart Lewis Hamilton alluded to a visit he received from his former team mate Fernando Alonso shortly after the race in Sao Paulo last week. The Spaniard came to offer him his congratulations on winning the world title and Hamilton says that Alonso [...]
