i'll just leave this here.
https://www.grandprix247.com/2017/08/31 ... mpionship/
Alonso: We could have the package to win a championship
Less than a week after declaring his
with the under powered McLaren-Honda during the Belgian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso has made a remarkable u-turn by telling reporters that he is happy where he is and confident that he may have a championship package next year.
Speaking ahead of the Italian grand Prix weekend, Alonso declared, “I am extremely happy here and l believe that here we could have the package to win a championship.”
Amid McLaren’s worst season in history, Alonso has previously made it clear that he available to a team capable of winning races. But the big four – Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and Red Bull – are not interested.
However the Spaniard was adamant he had several offers on the table and that his stock in the sport was at the highest level since he entered Formula 1. More than once he made it known that Honda’s problems were unacceptable.
The Spaniard now claims that suggestions he would leave McLaren, unless they ditched Honda, were “absolute rubbish.”
Instead he says he is awaiting what McLaren have in mind for him beyond 2017, “We will see what the proposals are. If they are very good, maybe two years could work. Maybe one year, maybe three, maybe five – l am young enough.”
“I will start sitting down with the team, what are the prospects for the future, the expectation for next year,” Alonso told reporters. We do now have some ingredients to be champions.”
“The team has improved a lot in the last three years from the time l arrived here. We have the talent, we have the facilities, we just miss being a bit more competitive – which is the most important bit. But we will see what the numbers say for next year and after that l will make a decision.”
With Ferrari and Red Bull driver line-ups for 2018 sorted, Mercedes looking set to retain Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton looking to extend beyond his current deal which terminates at the end of 2018.
Most recently Renault have said they are
for the Spaniard, which he acknowledged, “Renault have already said that next year they will not be ready, so they are honest too.
Furthermore, at Monza, Alonso denied he has lost faith in Honda’s ability to become competitive, “You never know. It’s the same thing with Ferrari in 2014-2015 when they made a huge step with the engine.”
“If you get the right direction, everything improves and the results quickly show. It’s something l need to understand – what are the developments, the next steps. They have the experience of the last three years so it’s possible,” added the two times F1 World Champion.
Meanwhile Williams have
they have even talked to Alonso with regards to a deal for next year, in the wake of numerous reports linking him to the team.
Regarding reports that he retired from the Belgian Grand Prix despite there being no problem with his car or power unit, confirmed by Honda, Alonso said, “I read that and was surprised the people forgot that I was racing for three years fighting to get out of Q1, fighting at the starts, pushing the car in Hungary up the hill in Q1 to get another run, I tried to race with a broken rib in Bahrain.”
“When I read that I thought people are not concentrating on the real things happening,” he added.
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/3577 ... -not-true/
Alonso: Me or Honda ultimatum 'not true'
Fernando Alonso has slammed reports that he has given McLaren an ultimatum of choosing between him and engine partner Honda for the 2018 campaign.
Alonso is in the final season of a three-year deal with McLaren, which remains a long way off the pace with Honda's unreliable and uncompetitive power unit.
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Alonso had told McLaren to pick either his services and another engine supplier or continue with Honda for 2018.
However, speaking ahead of the Italian Grand Prix, the Spaniard made clear that he has made no such statement, and reiterated his desire to see McLaren back on top.
"Absolutely not true," said Alonso, when asked about the reports.
"I have absolutely not decided, and more than anything I'm not bigger than a team, I am not… we are 1,000 people in McLaren-Honda working for the championship.
"We know that things are not going in the right direction, we are not competitive enough after three years, we all want to change that situation, me as one of the 1000 people there.
"We are McLaren, we all want the same thing: to be competitive."
Alonso added that he is edging closer to a decision over his future.
"I'm getting there, it's the 31st of August," he joked.
"There's nothing really new on that, I will start sitting down with the team especially, what are the prospects for the future, the expectations for next year.
"We do have now some ingredients to be champions, the team did improve a lot in the last three years from when I arrived here.
"I think we have the talent in the team, we have the facilities, we have everything, we just miss to be [being] more competitive, which is the most important thing.
"We will see what the numbers are saying for next year and after that try to make a decision."
Since it seems people have no problem writing a whole handbook called the 'biography why i hate alonso and he can't do nothing good' and subsequentially reading it,
i will assume they won't be as hypocritic to skip reading facts by the man himself on the actual matter, instead of armchair clicbait fantasy stories with no substance,
hence i will assume people here will take the effort to read the above.
also
Honda settles on 'Spec 3.7' for FP1 test
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