{"id":2564,"date":"2019-11-26T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:19:23","slug":"alonso-untroubled-by-rookie-vandoorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Alonso untroubled by rookie Vandoorne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team mates have come and gone for Fernando Alonso who does not sees rookie Stoffel Vandoorne as a major threat&#8230; at least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Alonso was paired with a F1 debutante was in 2007 when the man on the other side of the McLaren garage was none other than Lewis Hamilton, a relationship which did not work out too well for the Spaniard back then.\n<\/p>\n<p>But the two-time world champion very much doubts that history could repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Vandoorne) is not a driver to fight for the title against me now, because our goal is something else,&#8221; Alonso said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We must fight but also work together and help the team to make this difficult period as short as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vandoorne doubts McLaren win potential in 2017\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alonso insisted however that the situation took nothing away from Vandoorne&#8217;s genuine talent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a very good driver, he brings fresh air, he&#8217;s very talented as he demonstrated in GP2 and in Japan last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember when I went back to Renault I had Piquet. Then came Grosjean who was also going to be very fast and was not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same happened\u00a0 at Ferrari with Felipe (Massa): he was at Ferrari for many years and he was not faster. Then Kimi (Raikkonen), who everyone said is a world champion but he was not faster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let&#8217;s see what happens now. I&#8217;m not worried, I&#8217;m not afraid,&#8221; said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>GALLERY: F1 drivers&#8217; wives and girlfriends<\/p>\n<p><em>Keep up to date with all the F1 news via\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team mates have come and gone for Fernando Alonso who does not sees rookie Stoffel Vandoorne as a major threat&#8230; at least not yet. The last time Alonso was paired with a F1 debutante was in 2007 when the man on the other side of the McLaren garage was none other than Lewis Hamilton, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}