Fernando Alonso Will Not Return to Formula 1 If He Takes a 2015 Sabbatical

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Published: October 18, 2014

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For someone with his back pressed firmly against a brick wall, Fernando Alonso displayed a remarkable amount of confidence on Formula One's "Shock Saturday" at Suzuka a fortnight ago.

The paddock had been taken aback by the news that Sebastian Vettel, the four-time world champion, would be leaving Red Bull Racing at the end of 2014, suddenly leaving Alonso—who, according to Sky Sports' Pete Gill, had arranged to leave Ferrari that Thursday—with very few options for the 2015 season.



The Spaniard, though, seemed almost unaffected by Vettel's bombshell, showing no signs of conceding the high ground in the driver market.

He was quoted by James Galloway of Sky Sports as stating:

I have the privileged position because more or less I can choose wherever I want to go in the moment that I want to go.

I gain that respect in so many years, especially the last five at Ferrari, so being the decision maker probably some of the movements that we are seeing now is an implication of what I'm deciding. So let's wait a little bit and when I clear completely my last doubts, I will tell you where I go.

Despite Alonso's apparent ease with his current predicament, he has just two realistic choices for next season.

The most obvious option, of course, is to return to McLaren, the team he left in acrimonious circumstances after just a solitary campaign seven years ago.



With Honda returning as the outfit's power unit supplier, Alonso—who according to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson has agreed a "multi-year deal"—would become the poster boy of an exciting new project and lead the team's efforts to recreate the glory days of the 1980s and 1990s.

The less likely, but far more compelling, course of action would be for Alonso to take a year-long sabbatical in the hope of landing a seat with Mercedes, the newly crowned constructors' world champion...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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