Alain Prost: “It will be tough for Vettel if he goes to Ferrari. They're not ready to win."

Alain Prost, four-time Formula 1 world champion, one personalities in Motorsport and great rival of Ayrton Senna. The former driver, over the past weekend, was in Jerez de la Frontera where he attended the finale of the World Series as Renault brand ambassador. The transalpine gave a long interview to the Spanish media talking both about what is happening to Fernando Alonso and about the Ferrari situation.

Described as a quiet man, the Frenchman, especially in this last period, is often compared to the Oviedo driver: exactly as Prost did in 1992, Alonso too, in 2015, could be forced to take a gap year: “Technology doesn't change, if a pilot decides to take a break, he prepares, he rests and when he comes back he's stronger than before and that's fine, but if one stops and does nothing, the return will be much more complicated“. The Frenchman continued: “Personally, to take a sabbatical, you have to have certainties about the year of return. In Fernando's case, in case he already had it in his pocket a contract with Mercedes for 2016, but if it's not like that, it's difficult,” underlined the four-time world champion. There have been no announcements yet, neither from Alonso nor from Ferrari. Apparently, the Red Team, to announce the new driver You'll have to waitout of respect, let the Spaniard's situation also be clarified.

According to the Mattiacci-Marchionne duo, the Prancing Horse needed a change of direction and the arrival of Sebastian Vettel would leave the possibility of open a cycle, on the Schumacher style. Prost is not of this opinion: “Fernando has shown it, he is not the driver who manages the team. The technicians and the driver must go in the same direction, otherwise we won't get anything out of the hole – he continued – For Vettel it will be tough next year. In Maranello they can't think they're ready to win straight away. They are facing a time of great change and it takes time to rebuild everything,” she concluded.

Eleonora Ottonello