The Weekly Grapevine
This week, Dieter Rencken writes about the second Renault seat in 2007
The second Renault seat
Giancarlo Fisichella's contract extension with Renault was fairly predictable: the team have long known that Fernando Alonso departs for a team whose motto translates as 'all that glitters is certainly NOT gold'. Whilst not the quickest gun in the corral, the personable and extremely decent Italian is well-known to the team, and, above all, well-liked within it, and is certainly the default option.
That manager Enrico Zanarini could conceivably sell a farmer with one cow two milking machines whilst taking the lonely bovine in part-payment (the farmers equivalent of palming Eddie Irvine off to Jackie Stewart for record sums) no doubt had more than a little to do with the contractual extension, but that, after all, is exactly the function of these 'ten percenters'.
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