F1 sponsor switch to take Alonso to Ferrari?

now lets see who was one of the main people involved in the mclaren spy saga, ohh yes alonso seemed to produce all the righr information at the correct time and now the link with ferrari is on again even stronger than last time with santander in the news moving camps as well.
It might be just the way i am thinking but mclaren were really commanding the constructors championship when all this blew up (ferrari did not have a good enough car) and alonso from my point of view was the main culprit at mclaren involved in it,

he was the one originally in possession of the ferrari data and now we have the old move on again this sounds like the whole spy thing was started by ferrari in the first place after all totdt is heavily involved within the fia as well and on top of that after the spy saga he has a side way move away from managing the team.
It all smells a bit fishy to me

How will Marlboro take to having to give up its space on the ferrari. i dont think Santander have a chance of taking the space.
besides Alonso is S H I T. he may as well stay at Renault .

TooGood 2Tell, Ferrari are sponsored by Marlboro ( Philip Morris ) until 2011, Marlboro know that just using the White patch on the red car is enough to advertise the brand, Tobacco advertising ban or not
please check Wikipedia for references.

hahahah already crapping your pants ? it s just a rumour ... chill

barry, coghlan was the first person to have ferrari data. i did not hear anywhere that alonso was the source or recipient. please enlighten.

I have it on good authority that Santander have found their link with Lewis Hamiltin has been far more productive than having Alonso. In fact I believe that losing Alonso had a very limited effect.
Can't see it myself.

A driver moving out of F1 in recent past had mentioned, to win in F1 you have to be in team that has winning car. If FA has to return to winner's circle, he has to be in Ferrari.If indeed his move happens as part of Satander switch, it would be good for him .
It would be sweet revenge for the Italian team, whose Sponsor Vodafone was tanked by the Silver team. Interestingly signing of FA was the trigger that Silver team used to woo all the big cash paying sponsors first place.

Dean - Its amazing Marlboro funding Italian team inspite of the tobacco advertisement ban in Sport.

Well, thats the Abbey (National) Account getting shut down, if Santander sponsor Ferrari and leave any UK Manufacturer. Looks like I feel an RBS account opening as they sponsor Williams

Ahhhh good ole sport bild at it again. What a joke. If Fernando ends up at Ferrari ever, let alone next year, I'll donate all my money to the 'max is innocent' fund

Santander is going to Ferrari in 2010. Done deal. You read it here first

richard

I can't believe you are unaware that Alonso was an enthusaistic recipient of the Ferrari data last year - anyone reading more than the story headlines would know about this.

Chu chu

To make your statement, do you claim insider knowledge?

Or has really, really, really wanting something to be true become the same as knowledge?

Simon - everybody is aware McLaren engineers discussed data with PDLR and FA.And part of Drivers duty is to test the data on the track and provide feedback. One thing for sure none of us can claim of the current lot, if FA and PDLR are the only drivers doing that. There maybe others who are doing that as well.

All - End of the day what is sports for all of us fans is Job/business for those in paddock and out their nobody is permanent enemy of anyone. A driver may end up driving for same team that one had left couple of years ago( on good/bad term) there are examples on current grid. Unfortunately Its not just being good driver with speed and technical knowhow matters out there.

U own a contracting company. U steal a jackhammer. U give it to your employee so he can use it. Who s the thief, hinm or you? That s what happened wit FA and McLaren. Living with a thief doesnt make u one.

Oh yeah, this is true. I claim it s on ElPais cover today. elpais.com

elpais.com/articulo/deportes/Santander/patrocinara/Ferrari/partir/2010/elpepudep/20080710elpepudep_7/Tes

and if it s not politics, and it s on el pais, it s true, period.

chu

you going to change you're name to chuifosi?

nah - i dont llke ferrari or kimi or massa or santander. says nothing about alonso ...

simon, read barrys note. he says that alonso was "the one originally in possession of the ferrari data" all i did was to point out that it was coghlan. i did not imply that alonso did not ultimately know of the data or avail of it, only that he was NOT the first (or second etc) recipient of the data. in fact, was he not the one who sparked off the inquiry?

i hope alonso does get the drive at ferrari after the way he was treated at mclaren and by shamilton revenge would certainly be sweet.if there is a move on the cards i hope massa gets a good drive he deserves too