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Mercedes ‘not ruling out’ Alonso for 2017 F1 seat

Mercedes ‘not ruling out' Alonso for 2017 F1 seat Fernando Alonso and Mercedes have played down rumours linking the Spanish driver with Nico Rosberg's newly-vacant 2017 seat. Team boss Toto Wolff has made a point of saying almost every F1 driver has been in contact since Rosberg's seismic retirement news on Friday. Some reports said Alonso, currently under contract to McLaren-Honda, was an early favourite to reunite with his former teammate Lewis Hamilton. 'If I was Niki Lauda or Toto Wolff, my first choice would be Fernando Alonso,' Jo Ramirez, the former McLaren team manager, told Marca sports newspaper. But Wolff admitted to Germany's Bild am Sonntag that the way Alonso and...
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