F1 Gossip: Fernando Alonso moving closer to comeback with Renault?

In today's F1 gossip, Fernando Alonso is reportedly closing in on a sensational F1 comeback with Renault, McLaren boss reveals team courted Daniel Ricciardo for 'years', and Toto Wolff admits hiring Sebastian Vettel would have marketing value for Mercedes...

F1 Gossip: Fernando Alonso closing on comeback with Renault?

In today's F1 gossip, Fernando Alonso is reportedly closing in on a sensational F1 comeback with Renault, McLaren boss reveals team courted Daniel Ricciardo for 'years', and Toto Wolff admits hiring Sebastian Vettel would have marketing value for Mercedes...

- Fernando Alonso is reportedly moving closer to an extraordinary return to the For൩mula 1 grid with Renault for the 2021 season, with several sources confirming the existence of discussions between the two parties ( 

- McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has revealed the team has been courting Daniel Ricciardo for a number of years, having agreed a deal for the Australian to replace the Ferrari-bound Carlos Sai💖nz in it🤡s line-up alongside Lando Norris for 2021 () 

- Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff admits hiring Sebastian Vettel would have marketing value for Mercedes but insist the team is “pursuing a long-termಞ strategy” with its current driver pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas () 

- Carlos Sainz has been backed to surprise at Ferrari 🐷when he teꦗams up with Charles Leclerc at the Scuderia next year, according to the Spaniard’s former F3 boss, Trevor Carlin () 

- The official F1 2020 Codemasters video game could get a ‘real season’ patch so played can race the revised 2020 race schedule as well as the originally planned 22-round calendar ()&nℱbsp;

- Rare BBC Newsreel footage of the British and European Grand Prix - designated as the first ever F1 world championship race - on 13 May 1950, haﷺs been unearthed ()

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