Wantaway Renault star preparing for move to Ferrari?

Nando Alonso has denied he is house-hunting in the Swiss town of Lugano, near to the Italian border - more specifically, it’s near Maranello, the home of Ferrari. Lugano is less than 200 miles from Maranello, compared with Alonso’s current home in Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland, which is nearly twice that distance to Scuderia’s HQ. Hmm, interesting…

Alonso was reportedly spotted looking at properties in Lugano, but he said: “It is true that I was in the Italian region of Switzerland, but I was on vacation and looking for a hotel, not a house.”

Yeah, tell it to the judge. Would Alonso really need to look for a hotel, whilst he was on holiday? Surely he’d plan a vacation in advance. Sounds to us like the Spaniard is gearing up for a move to Ferrari, either in 2009 or 2010.