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…

Spanish Sulk bemoans lack of luck, Honda may swoop

Fernando Alonso couldn’t summon up the grace to congratulate Renault team-mate Nelsinho Piquet on his podium finish at Hockenheim. In an interview with Spanish newspaper Diario AS, the ex-world champ made it very clear that Piquet’s shock success was mostly down to luck:

“It was quite a bad weekend for Nelsinho, but suddenly he got a safety car on the best possible lap for him and he is on the podium… This is the safety car lottery. Without luck we can only be aiming for seventh or eighth.”

Translation: why the hell did the rookie catch a break, and not me.

Honda’s chief geek reveals what Alonso really wants

Amid speculation that cash-rich Honda could be Nando Alonso’s next destination, Ross Brawn, the team’s principal, admits that “every team” would be interested in signing the former double world champion for 2009 - hmm, not sure Ron Dennis would agree, but we take Brawn’s point.

“Honda is no different, of course,” Brawn told the Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell.

“Fernando is a very good driver that everyone would like to have sitting in their car,” said the man who was formerly Ferrari’s technical director.

“(But) I know what team he would like to go to, everyone does [i.e. Ferrari]. The reality is that, before we can talk seriously with him, the situation with Ferrari must be resolved.”