Why is Alonso's transfer delayed?

After the announcement of the departure of Sebastian Vettel de Red Bull during the last Japanese Grand Prix, and his future arrival (not yet officially confirmed) at Ferrari, Fernando Alonso lost his hand in the game of the transfer market. The double Spanish world champion nevertheless hoped to still be able to join Mercedes banking on a possible deterioration of the situation between Rosberg and Hamilton but the door seems closed. “Alonso at Mercedes? A stupidity, indicated in Russia Toto wolff, Executive Director of Mercedes Motorsport. We have a contract with Lewis Hamilton until the end of 2015 and with Nico Rosberg until the end of 2016, and our intention is to continue with them. » The answer is clear.

From then on, only the way McLaren-Honda seems open to the former resident of Woking, who would return to a team that he frequented in 2007 and which seems willing to welcome back the native of Oviedo, not without imposing certain conditions?

Find our complete decryption of the underside of the transfer of Fernando Alonso, in issue 1983 of AUTOhebdo, available in digital version and on newsstands.