Thursday, 10 April 2008Fernando Alonso says he chose to leave the McLaren Formula One team at the end of last year because the Anglo-German outfit is "not a winning team".
The former double Formula 1 world champion is quoted by the Dutch website f1today.nl as justifying his return to Renault this year, following his spectacular falling out with British McLaren duo Ron Dennis and Lewis Hamilton in 2007.
"McLaren seem like a winning team, but they are not," Alonso, 26, said.
"Some teams are a! ble to produce good cars," he said. "They seem like winners, but in fact they are not, like McLaren.
"They haven't won any titles in years, so I would rather be with Renault, who in the same period collected two drivers' and two constructors' championships."
For the moment, however, Alonso is making no concrete commitment to the French outfit for 2009.
"Next year I want to be with a team that can win," he said. (some quoted from f1live.nl)
