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Alonso denies wanting Ferrari, Mercedes switch

Apr.13 Fernando Alonso has played down suggestions McLaren is still not out of crisis even after dumping Honda. After blaming its woeful performance between 2015 and 2017 on the now departed Honda, McLaren now is behind newly Honda-powered Toro Rosso and still notably slow on the straights. And Alonso's management supremo, Flavio Briatore, said on Italian radio this week that he would like to see the Spaniard in a Ferrari or a Mercedes. "Flavio wants the best for me in terms of results," Alonso told AS newspaper. "In the last two or three years there were three teams ahead of the others so I understand his comments. "But I'm happy where I am now," he insisted....
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