Alonso back to Renault maybe?
Alonso's McLaren future uncertain
Fernando Alonso?s long-term future at McLaren has been thrown into question after speculation grew over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend that he may look to leave the team at the end of the season.
The double world champion is contracted to the Mercedes-powered squad until the end of the 2008 season but the future length of that partnership now seems uncertain after the Spaniard?s relationship with team-mate Lewis Hamilton reached new levels of tension at the weekend.
Alonso was asked about his future with the team in an interview with the Spanish media following his fourth-place finish in Hungary.
And when asked if it was possible to continue with the current situation at McLaren for the duration of his contract he replied: ?I don?t know?.
The speculation about the 26-year-old led McLaren boss Ron Dennis to answer questions about the Spaniard?s future in his own post-race press briefing.
However the Briton said such speculation is always inevitable and that his team would respect its contracts with both Alonso and Hamilton ? adding that he hoped both drivers would do the same.
"There is an inevitability that these things are rumoured and discussed in other teams," he said.
"We have two drivers who are contracted for several years into the future.
"We will respect our part of that bargain and that part of the situation.
?We hope that the drivers respect theirs because that's what a contract is about."
The rumours surrounding Alonso?s McLaren come after his former team Renault?s engineering director Pat Symonds recently admitted that the world champion squad hoped he would one day return to them.
The Spaniard spent five seasons as a test and then race driver with the Anglo-French squad, winning both of his world titles there and establishing himself as the successor to Michael Schumacher as Formula 1?s pre-eminent driver.
Symonds was asked in an interview in the August issue of F1 Racing magazine if Renault could or would take its former prot?g? back.
"Would we? Yes. Could we? I hope so," Symonds responded.
"He is a damn good driver though and we?d happily have him back.
"I?d love to think that one day he might come back."
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