{"id":548,"date":"2009-12-19T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:48:23","slug":"ferrari-told-alonso-to-be-a-team-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-told-alonso-to-be-a-team-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari told Alonso to be a team player"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Luca di Montezemolo has admitted Ferrari was concerned Fernando Alonso might not be a team player.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with international reporters at a Christmas dinner on Friday, the Ferrari president was asked about the Spaniard&#8217;s reputation and personality, including how his relationship with McLaren so badly broke down in 2007.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke about these elements with (Stefano) Domenicali maybe 1000 times, not 100, 1000 times, and I spoke with Alonso,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I told him: &#8216;If you come to drive for us, you drive for a team, you drive for a group, you don&#8217;t drive for yourself. &#8220;If you want a team, then you do your own team, fantastic, like John Surtees.\u00a0 In Ferrari we want to put you in the best condition to win.\u00a0 If not, we will never hire you,&#8221; said Montezemolo.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that Santander, Ferrari&#8217;s major new Spanish sponsor, did not demand that Alonso join the team, as was suggested in an interview this week by Kimi Raikkonen. &#8220;Certainly, they (Santander) are happy, but it is not the sponsors that choose the drivers: we have never operated like that and we never will,&#8221; said Montezemolo.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has admitted Ferrari was concerned Fernando Alonso might not be a team player. \u00a0 Speaking with international reporters at a Christmas dinner on Friday, the Ferrari president was asked about the Spaniard&#8217;s reputation and personality, including how his relationship with McLaren so badly broke down in 2007.<\/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":[5262,149,93,152,148,5284,151,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}