It’s been more than ten years since he was Fernando Alonso for the first time in serious negotiations with Red Bullom. In the fall of 2007, a Spaniard who was unhappy at the time McLarn, and great men Red Bullbut discussed possible cooperation. “It just belongs to those things that unfortunately never happened. But it was very close,”Is for colleagues from Esquire he said Adrian Newey.
The top designer came to 2006 in Red Bull and experienced negotiations with Alonso up close. “I think we would have achieved a lot of success together. However, it did not work. We met a few times and negotiations took place in Austria." But Newey it does not state here exactly the time period in which this occurred. In words Helmut Mark however, they seriously negotiated with Alonso in 2007 when Alonso was represented by his manager Luis García Abad. And the latter set some requirements that were very demanding in some areas.
"We told him, 'OK, we'll take a closer look at this.' Please send us a draft contract. We agreed to get it within a week. After 14 days there was still nothing, not even after three weeks. Then we said to Abad, ‘Thank you, we don’t need anything anymore, '”He remembers Marko. That settled the matter - didn't it? “In 2007, there was a conversation with Alonso, but it didn’t lead to anything. Then there was no more offer from us,”So Marko.
On the other hand Alonso talks about several offers he has received over the years from Red Bull Racing. Also the team boss Christian horner confirmed that they had also spoken to Alonso in the following years. “Helmut and I talked to his management at the end of 2008 about the 2009 and 2010 seasons and offered him a two-year contract,”So Horner. Even then, they were in contact several times. Also statements Newey hint that further negotiations remained after 2007. For in the same interview, he explained that Alonso had almost become a teammate at the time Sebastian Vettl.
The latter, however, raced for 2007 and 2008 Toro Rosso and only joined the Red Bulls' first team in 2009. "It was like Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost," so Newey in view of a possible racing lineup Red Bulla Vettel / Alonso. From a time perspective, the negotiations mentioned by Newey would be more appropriate in 2008 and beyond. The fact is, however, that cooperation never took place.
"All indications are that he had some pitch in some of his decisions," so Newey, who won four consecutive championship titles with Vettl between 2010 and 2013, while Alonso won Ferrari left without the desired title. Even his later return to McLarn in the 2015 season was not crowned with success and so the Spaniard said goodbye at the end of 2018 Formula 1 without a third title.
to Newey it is unfortunate that there was no cooperation because Alonso in his opinion, he is a racer who always pulls more out of the car than he actually allows. “I think that adorns the great racers,”So Newey, who has worked with many world champions. Only the best racers can show outstanding performances, even though they don’t have the best race car, either way Newey.
