2014. Fernando Alonso faces his last season with Ferrari and its future is an absolute unknown. Which ended with a signature with McLaren-Honda it could have been quite different: Mercedes knocked on his door.
Toto Wolffthen and current head of the star brand proposed to Ferrari an exchange of pilots between the double champion of Formula 1 Y lewis hamiltonwho had already been a teammate of the Asturian in McLaren in 2007.
Ferrari rejected the proposal since they were immersed in negotiations with Alonso to extend his contract until 2019, but it was Fernando himself who decided that his journey in Maranello had come to an end.
They are not speculations, since the current pilot of Aston Martin He recognized it a posteriori, in 2016, during an interview in ‘Ser’.
“Yes, there was that offer. Circumstances arose for that idea but Ferrari did not want to andAt that time, he was in the middle of negotiating with me to renew until 2019. They didn’t offer me to wait for Hamilton’s contract to end, and in the end I wasn’t convinced by Ferrari’s offer, so I decided to go to McLaren Honda. I don’t know if Hamilton knew“said the Oviedo.
“I think that in Ferrari I finished a cycle, we had done three runners-up in the world, the changes that were taking place were big, so I think it was my time to go through the front door, I think. I wanted to have an illusion and a new project. Being at peace with yourselfKnowing what you want is essential and at Ferrari I wasn’t, I didn’t believe in anything because I knew we were going to be runners-up, last year they were third. I wanted a new project and McLaren Honda was the most convincing,” he added.
In the end, Alonso ended up in a disappointing project with McLaren-Honda Y lewis hamilton continued in Mercedes to give way to an absolute monopoly of the team in Formula 1 during the hybrid era until 2021, the season in which max verstappen Y Red Bull They lowered the Germans from the throne.
There will always be the question of what would have happened if Fernando had driven a ‘silver arrow’ and the now seven-time champion had left without a seat Sebastian Vettel in the ‘Scuderia’.
Just imagine Alonso in Mercedes in 2014 pic.twitter.com/zZh4Go9kCP
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