Red Bull Racing head Christian Horner said the team once offered Fernando Alonso a two-year contract, but the Spanish racer agreed to sign a deal for just one season, so the parties disagreed.
A few years later, Fernando Alonso offered his services to Red Bull Racing on his own initiative, but the team already had Sebastian Vettel and the matter did not come to a substantive discussion.
“We were very close to an agreement,” Christian Horner told Motor Sport Magazine. – I met his agency, because we offered Fernando a two-year contract for 2008 and 2009, but he agreed to sign a contract for only one season. Red Bull and Dietrich Mateschitz took a clear position – either a two-year contract or nothing, and Fernando did not sign an agreement with us.
We thought at the time that he already had a contract with Ferrari for 2009. A strange story about Flavio Briatore. He then tried to get Fernando into the Renault he was driving. As a result, Alonso played two seasons for Renault.
Midway through 2009, Fernando’s people approached me and said he could join Red Bull next season and win the title in our car. In 2011 or 2012, Fernando and I had another conversation in the back seat of an Alfa Romeo at Spa airport, but again, the most serious negotiations were the very first. Then he missed the opportunity.”
Source: F1 News
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