A Fernando Alonso F1 return has been rejected by two top teams, but will Sebastian Vettel accept keep being beaten by Charles Leclerc for much longer?
We got a deal? Alonso could be a possible alternative for Ferrari if Sebastian Vettel decides he wants to return to Red BullAlonso and this writer had a lengthy - and fundamentally private - chat in the McLaren motorhome on Friday in Monza. I prodded him about the idea of an F1 return, about the approaches to Ferrari and Red Bull, and got nowhere, as expected. We talked at length about his preparations for the Dakar Rally, and chatted generally about the Indianapolis 500, F1 and his future.
Red Bull have already dropped Pierre Gasly back to Toro Rosso after a disappointing first part of the season, and his replacement Alexander Albon has made a good start but is still very early into the nine races that the team say will decide whether he keeps the drive for 2020. But for a while now in F1 there have been whispers that the marriage between Vettel and Ferrari is not what it was, that he might be interested in a move away, and that his preferred destination would be Red Bull, where he achieved the vast majority of his success.
Max Verstappen's presence at Red Bull makes it unlikely that Sebastian Vettel would join and open the way for Alonso to take his seat at FerrariThere are a number of reasons why Vettel to Red Bull and Alonso to Ferrari appear unlikely to happen. After their fractious time together at McLaren, the Japanese manufacturer blocked Alonso from driving an Indycar with one of its engines in it, so are hardly likely to welcome him into an F1 car fitted with one.
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