Fernando Alonso and Max Verstappen get along excellently. © APA/afp / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC

Formula 1: The rumor mill is bubbling

Sometimes it gets adventurous. In a tweet, a journalist writes that he heard a rumor in the paddock that he himself didn't want to believe.

02 November 2023

From: dpa

No name. The nationality of the media worker fuels the imagination: he is Spanish. Like Fernando Alonso, the two-time Formula 1 world champion. After an exhilarating start to the season, he is currently just struggling in the Aston Martin and at 42 years old, he probably doesn't have too many seasons left in the premier motorsport class.

So the speculation took off – and how. Alonso could switch to Red Bull and replace the massively weak Mexican Sergio Pérez, whose stay for next year may well be in doubt despite his contract. “I hope it remains a rumor and doesn’t become news,” the Spanish journalist wrote a day after his first tweet on X, formerly Twitter.

Sergio Perez is having a difficult time at Red Bull. © ANSA / Jose Mendez

It is extremely doubtful that Red Bull will bring in someone like Alonso with Daniel Ricciardo just waiting, who is currently (still) driving for the sister team Alpha Tauri. It is no less doubtful that Red Bull is putting an alpha animal like Alonso, who seems more moderate than before, alongside a three-time world champion Max Verstappen. Even if the thought of this driver pairing would be exciting beyond all speculation.