Why Fernando Alonso Will Benefit from Kimi Raikkonen’s Return to Ferrari

It comes with a degree of irony that Fernando Alonso is a huge fan of the sport of cycling. On the first day of this month, the Spaniard sent tongues wagging with a tweet advising his 1.8 million followers to expect “important news” from him in the near future. With Red Bull yet to officially confirm that Daniel Ricciardo would replace the departing Mark Webber, imaginations were dreaming up a mouth-watering pairing of Alonso and Sebastian Vettel at the Milton Keynes-based team. However, only the shrewdest Formula One fans were spot-on with their assumption that the Ferrari driver’s upcoming news would be related to his acquisition of Euskaltel Euskadi, the financially stricken cycling team. Nearly three weeks later, and ...

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