Alonso to join McLaren in 2007
 

:!: Alonso to join McLaren in 2007 :!:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...943301,00.html


I posted this in the F1 sticky thread but figure it deserves a thread of it own...

:shock: Alonsı to McLaren ???? :shock:
I am really shocked with this news. I can' beleive Renault lost its champion. I think Montoya will be forced out by Mclaren

I`am 110% sure that Kimi will drive a red car in 2007 :wink:

Soooo , Willy Weber said that MSc won`t drive for another team besides Ferrari , and if , most certainly :lol: Kimi joins the Scuderia in 2007, 2006 could be Schumi`s last season.

McLaren will be painted red in 2007 because of vodafone sponsorship deal. :wink:

^^^^^ :lol: :lol: yeah , but you know what I`am talking about :wink: :mrgreen:

Kimi would be stupid if he would go to Ferrari under the conditions Schumi's former teammates were driving. It would be killing for his championship aspirations.

Mclaren has the fastest car at the end last season, and Alonso clearly trying to make that his advantage. All those PR stuff are pure crap, win with a different team blah blah blah. He knows that Renault will lose its technical advantagevery soon and thus making the switch. I really hope Kimi will stay on the same team tho, that would for sure spice things up for us, but that most likely not gonna happen.

one thing that does make me appreciate the mclaren team is no matter where they are competitively... they are always at the limit of functionality/breakage of their chassis/engine. at the same time... doing so doesnt mean you win races, no matter having the fastest car.

i think its a mistake to have alanso... as really... i feel JPM is equally good, and more aggressive driver. Kimi is blisterinly fast... and definately a future multi- WDC of F1.

^so they are consistent? lol

I dont think so, it can happen but IMO Valentino is going to drive for Ferrari...

Back on topic, i wanna see Alonso braking engines and some other lucky bastard getting the championship :P

I recognise that Alonso is a good driver but I don't like him at all...considering that my favourite team is Ferrari, I'm happy with these news as they mean that Alonso won't join Ferrari in the following years :)

if somehow, MS doesnt get the drivers title in 06... i dont doubt he'll retire from F1 driving.... but if he dose it, i wouldn't put a drive in 07... and even 08 plausable...

i think Rossi will have a future in F1... but its just speculation really as to when/where.

I guess quite clearly what it is going to happen; I think Alonso will go to McLaren because Raikkonen goes to ferrari in the same period and Michael Schumacher will be retired as well (I mean, although Alonso has officially made his contraction, probably the Kaiser has already taken his decision to retire from the world championship Formula 1 and probably Raikkonen has already signed by Ferrari at the same time for 2007). In addition, I think that Juan Pablo Montoya will be his teammate unless Niko Rosberg or Kovalainen have a good next season

The other option, but less likely, that Im thinking about is that Raikkonen and Alonso will share the McLaren team as Prost and Senna did in the ninetees; however, I think that this relationship between two leaders wont take a long time

It looks like Carlos Ghosn CEO of Renault, will pull Renault out of F1 after 2007, citing the spiralling costs associated with Formula One (Renault's budget was around 300 million dollars for 2005) as Renault (car company) had a sales decrease this year and needs to improve its bottom line, Ghosn see's that F1 is not giving Renault the returns that they should be getting with what they spend.

It is also speculated that Falvio Briatore is leaving after 2006. Probably the main reason he switched companies would be that Alsono wanted to drive for a championship team, after 2006, and that Mclaren has the cash to pay Alsono's Pay increase after his contract has expired. Renault is very cheap with Drivers Salaries compared to other teams, so they would likely baulked at his demands.

It looks like Schumacher is out after 2006, and Raikkonen is in 2007. It looks like Montoya and Alsono for 2007 for Mclaren, and Raikkonen and Massa/Rossi for Ferrari.

I wonder what is gonig to happen to Fischella and Kovalalein.??
It looks like Wurz will probably take over Villenvauve's spot for BMW in 2007 too, if he takes the role at BMW instead of Mclaren this year.

and Im hoping David Richards comes back to F1 after the new concorde agreement is signed by all the teams, he was awesome with Honda, still dont know why he got fired since he got Honda to come in second place??

^ Interesting speculation. Should be fun to see what happens after 2006.

About David Richards, he had a falling out w/ the drivers I thought. On top of that Honda wanted to install their own guy. Last time I heard was that he was thinking about using ProDrive to come in w/ a team.