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Alonso defended amid Marchionne's snide remarks

Fernando Alonso has been defended by his former boss at Ferrari and his personal manager following a verbal attack by Ferrari's president Sergio Marchionne. Just as Marchionne swept into Maranello last winter, Alonso was racing to the exit, and the new president now says Ferrari could not be happier with the Spaniard's successor Sebastian Vettel. 'In only one year, I can say he (Vettel) became more ‘Ferrarista' than Alonso did in five years,' Marchionne charged. There is no love lost between Marchionne and his own predecessor, and so former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo was quoted by Autosprint as defending Alonso after the jibe. 'Alonso would have been more...
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