Hamilton back to McLaren? (Update)
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| Alonso when he was screwed by McLaren in 2007 |
After how he was treated last time at McLaren under Ron Dennis Fernando Alonso will never go back to the Woking outfit. Never. However, the Fernando Alonso to McLaren rumors have resurfaced while reports have also emerged that the team have put feelers out for Lewis Hamilton.
The Woking squad have once again struggled this year and speculation is rife that Jenson Button, who joined the squad from Brawn GP in 2010, is likely to be dropped.
However, McLaren racing director Eric Boullier recently insisted they are likely to offer him a new one-year contract, but the latest reports claim the team are stepping up their attempts to lure Alonso back, which will coincide with their switch to Honda engines next season.
Alonso moved to McLaren in 2007, but he left after just one year at the squad following a fallout with then team principal Ron Dennis, who is now the team principal again.
Telegraph Sport reports that the double World Champion "has become disillusioned with life at Ferrari", but continues that "it remains to be seen whether the Spaniard can be persuaded to join".
The paper further adds that "the team have also opened very tentative dialogue with Lewis Hamilton, in case the psychological scars of this year's title fight at Mercedes become too great. The only circumstances in which Hamilton would leave Mercedes are if he lost out to Nico Rosberg for the Drivers' Championship".
Both Dennis and Button have confirmed that they are not currently in negotiations over a new contract with the 2009 World Champion adding: "It's not necessary to talk about contracts right now because they've got other things to focus on, like making the car quicker."
He added: "We haven't spoken about it. It's always different but it's not something I've pushed. I'm sure if I pushed to sit down and talk about it we would, but I'm not pushing because when it happens it happens. This team need to score good points and I score good points for this team."
06/07/14
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| McLaren wants Hamilton back |
(GMM) Lewis Hamilton in Montreal sounded unlikely to be considering a return to McLaren.
Reporting from the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Daily Mail correspondent Jonathan McEvoy claimed the Woking based team, having given the 2008 world champion his F1 debut seven years ago, has been in contact with Hamilton.
McLaren, and particularly its incoming works engine supplier Honda, is undoubtedly pushing for a top driver to head the charge in 2015, with rumors linking Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel already doing the rounds.
"For now the interest on both sides is tentative," said McEvoy, revealing the Hamilton-McLaren link.
On the face of it, a return to McLaren for Hamilton, 29, would seem unlikely. He only left the team that nurtured him from boyhood at the end of 2012, having reportedly fallen out with supremo Ron Dennis.
And now, believed to be the equal highest paid F1 driver alongside Alonso, he is at the wheel of the ultra-dominant Mercedes.
But Hamilton is also embroiled in a seismic teammate spat with Nico Rosberg as the pair tussle for the 2014 title.
"If Hamilton were to lose the title to Rosberg," said McEvoy, "imagine the trauma that would accompany that outcome."
Hamilton, however, hinted at the scene of Sunday's Canadian grand prix that while he is yet to ink a new deal, that is eventually the most likely outcome.
"At the moment no," he said when asked if he has signed a new contract, "but I have always said I feel happy in this team.
"I cannot imagine myself anywhere else in the future," the Briton is quoted by the Mirror.