{"id":21884,"date":"2014-05-11T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2014-05-11T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:06:23","slug":"wolff-not-interested-in-one-night-stand-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wolff-not-interested-in-one-night-stand-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolff not interested in ‘one night stand’ Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercedes has closed the door on Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n

\"Toto-Wolff-1\"Swirling rumours in the Barcelona paddock suggested the increasingly-frustrated Spaniard may have looked into whether there could be a place open at the dominant Brackley team for 2015..<\/p>\n

That interest would be despite Alonso’s ongoing Ferrari contract, and also the fact that Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton are similarly fastened to Mercedes beyond this year.<\/p>\n

And Niki Lauda, Mercedes’ outspoken chairman, promptly dismissed the speculation as “bullsh*t”, according to the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten.<\/p>\n

Team boss Toto Wolff added: “We think long-term — we are not interested in one night stands.”<\/p>\n

The door to silver pastures would seem to be firmly shut to Alonso.<\/p>\n

Not only that, the Spaniard – earlier with the easy upper-hand on new Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen – has been soundly outpaced by the Finn at home in Spain this weekend.<\/p>\n

Europa Press quoted Alonso as saying: “I’m more worried about the 1.8 second gap to Mercedes.”<\/p>\n

Raikkonen, too, was not celebrating his Saturday triumph.<\/p>\n

“It gives me no satisfaction to be ahead of him (Alonso),” he said.\u00a0 “What I want is to be fighting for the top positions.<\/p>\n

“Of course it’s nicer to be in front of him than behind, but whether you’re sixth or seventh doesn’t make much difference,” Raikkonen added.<\/p>\n

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Mercedes has closed the door on Fernando Alonso. Swirling rumours in the Barcelona paddock suggested the increasingly-frustrated Spaniard may have looked into whether there could be a place open at the dominant Brackley team for 2015.. That interest would be despite Alonso’s ongoing Ferrari contract, and also the fact that Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1528,5262,149,5340,154,4,598,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21885,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21884\/revisions\/21885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}