Why Would Fernando Alonso Leave Ferrari for Jenson Button’s Seat at McLaren?

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Published: August 28, 2014

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Since Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren's then-team principal, admitted his interest in re-signing Fernando Alonso to Sky Sports' Pete Gill last year, Formula One's rumour mill has been dominated by one story.

Would Alonso be willing to forget the events of his previous tenure at the Woking team and happily return to an environment that cost him a third consecutive world title in 2007?

Would Ron Dennis, McLaren's proud head honcho, tolerate the presence of a man who, according to BBC Sport, threatened to release evidence in the "Spygate" scandal which eventually cost the organisation £49.2m? 



Would the Spaniard, who since 2010 has appeared to be Ferrari's guiding light, be able to stomach the idea that his time at the Prancing Horse was time wasted?

And would Jenson Button, the 2009 world champion and arguably McLaren's lead driver since 2011, be the one left standing in this year's edition of musical chairs?

We are, with just seven races of the current campaign remaining, rapidly approaching the stage where F1's silly season becomes a lot more serious. 

It is a time when fantasy becomes reality, when the flow of questions stop and the answers begin to drip from the tap.



It is no surprise, then, that we are beginning to see the first real signs of movement, the first pieces of the jigsaw puzzle coming into place.

Button has, for the first time, admitted that his F1 career could be winding to a conclusion, with the 34-year-old telling Andrew Benson of BBC Sport at last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix:

We haven't sat down and talked about it.

If I have to retire at the end of the season then so be it, but I feel I have so much more to give and I can't imagine life without motorsport and especially Formula 1.

On the back of Button's comments came the news, as reported by The Telegraph's Daniel Johnson, that...
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