New McLaren signing Fernando Alonso (above) is at the top of Mercedes’ shopping list, should Lewis Hamilton not stay with the dominant German team beyond this year, with Valtteri Bottas also a candidate. That is the admission of team boss Toto Wolff, in comments that might be interpreted as a ‘hurry up’ to F1’s new reigning world champion. Briton Hamilton’s Mercedes deal runs out at the end of 2015, and Wolff had said recently that he wanted to renew it as soon as possible. But whilst holidaying in the Austrian ski town of Kitzbuhel, he has now told La Gazzetta dello Sport: “There’s no hurry. We will talk about it during the year. “I am optimistic,” said Wolff. “The priority is to continue with these drivers. But if that’s not possible, Alonso is the first alternative. Then there’s Bottas.” Bottas (above) has also been linked with a future move to Ferrari, and Wolff told La Gazzetta dello Sport, “They [Ferrari] do not have a lot of options when the contract of Raikkonen expires. From my side, there are certain conditions in the event that his [Bottas’] future sits outside of Mercedes.”
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:42:35 +0000
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