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It does seem a bit bizarre about Alonso but it does seem that a lot of news sites are claiming that Alonso can secure a move to Ferrari in 2009. You would think Massa's position would be the one under threat but he has a longer contract at Ferrari now than Raikkonen.
Contracts are there to be broken I guess...
I feel tha Rosberg will need to move to a bigger team within the next couple of seasons. I can't see the rule changes for next year mixing things up enough for Williams to suddenly become front runners. If he wants to win races he'll need to change teams, in my view.
According to the BBC, Renault have made an offer to Alonso but they want him to be part of their long term plans and not a stop gap for a year or two so he can go and join Ferrari.
> I would say Kovalainen would be the most likely to go to McLaren
> if Alonso joins Renault and I hope Piquet Jnr gets the other seat
> at Renault, as I can't stand Fisichella. Otherwise, McLaren may
> go with Paffett or just take the driver Alonso replaces.
Crash.net have put up an article considering the many options, which include Alonso maybe even ending up at Toyota, or Alonso and Coulthard effectively swapping seats, but both of those seem pretty unlikely. Paffett may well join McLaren if Prodrive don't join the grid next year.
Now that is a concern, though if they take an '07 McLaren chassis and alter it to make it more or less their own; problem solved, a la Super Aguri?
Fisichella has had some brilliant seasons in the past (Outclassing Button at Benneton, scoring several impressive finishes in that woeful Jordan...), but he seems to be slipping now, I can't see him being around much longer, except maybe at a team lower down the grid. Or in DTM? :)
Sure, he has a special relationship but McLaren don't usually have a reputation as a one man team, not like teams that had Schumacher or when Alonso was at Renault.
I would say Kovalainen would be the most likely to go to McLaren if Alonso joins Renault and I hope Piquet Jnr gets the other seat at Renault, as I can't stand Fisichella. Otherwise, McLaren may go with Paffett or just take the driver Alonso replaces.
Of course, it also leaves us with the question of who will drive alongside Hamilton next year, and if Hamilton is made to drive with negative points (as Mosley incinuated he may do) would that also affect Alonso?
The FIA haven't done themselves any favours. Constant meddling and a penalty to McLaren that defies belief (I still can't see the smoking gun on that issue). The fuel temperature thing is just another mess they have gotten themselves into.
The rule states I think that the temperature that the FIA provide is the one that they go with. No one else had a problem keeping inside the guidelines so even if the temperature readings were done with a guy standing out in the sun plucking random figures out of the air, they have to keep within the guidelines.
As I said, the FIA have a lot to do to get the confidence of everyone back and will have to go through everything thoroughly.
The Ferrari incident was that it wasn't illegal and was then made illegal after the race was won, so no penalty could ever be given on that.