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Nick Fry: Alonso turned down our offer in 2009
Former Brawn GP and Mercedes CEO Nick Fry has revealed that Fernando Alonso turned down the opportunity to join Honda in 2008 and thus missed out on racing for Brawn GP in 2009, their championship winning year, and also squandered an opportunity to be part of the Mercedes team that emerged thereafter. Speaking at the Sin Limites Management and Business Summit (MABS) in Spain, Fry said, 'Fernando Alonso should have been driving for Nick Fry and Ross Brawn in 2009. If he did, he would be four times world champion today.' 'Fernando Alonso could be one of the lost talents. If he had made better decisions, he would have done much better,' added Fry. After a fractious 2007 year at McLaren,...
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