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Alonso tried to secure Mercedes drive in 2015
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As his relationship with Ferrari progressively dissolved in 2014, Fernando Alonso's management made a bid for a Mercedes drive in a scheme which would have involved a sensational swap with Lewsi Hamilton. The ploy failed miserably, perhaps because Hamilton, if he was aware of the talks, knew all to well that he would have been abandoning the substance for the shadow. "There was a try to do this, yes," Alonso told Spanish broadcaster Cadena SER. "The circumstances for this idea existed but at the time Ferrari did not want it. They were in negotiations to renew with me until 2019, but in the end, Ferrari did not convince me and I went to...
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