Alonso leaving or not?
“For me, the important thing is to feel competitive, to feel fast. And I still feel that way. I haven’t decided yet when I’ll stop, I don’t know if it will be this year, next year, or in three years“, so Fernando Alonso in a long interview given to Mundo Deportivo clarified the rumors about his possible retirement, which caused a lot of stir in Spain after Thursday’s press conference in Barcelona.
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Fernando puffs out his chest: “I have always supported my teams”
Alonso then wanted to clarify a point, a refrain that has accompanied him for several years, namely that label of team-breaker that has sometimes been a limit for his career: “If I think about the past and the three-four years with McLaren-Honda, we were last with a real power unit problem.
It seems that only Alonso complained about the engine, there was the famous Suzuka team radio. Jenson Button’s radio comments were like that every weekend, but they weren’t made public and remained internal to the team. As mine should have been.”
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Another example Alonso gave relates to his years at Ferrari: “I haven’t always won during my career. I was at Ferrari for five years, losing two world championships in the last race. I don’t think I ever said anything, did I? I have always supported Ferrari and we were a team, we were a united force and thanks to that strength we fought against Red Bull. After my whole career, it surprises me that people think I’m only now supporting the team, because that’s what I’ve always tried to do.”
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