Flavio Briatore has said he warned Fernando Alonso about joining McLaren because Lewis Hamilton 'was in the pocket of Ron Dennis'. In his role as Alonso's manager, Briatore advised against the Spaniard becoming part of the McLaren set-up because he envisaged that Hamilton's close ties with the boss would cause problems. 'He went to McLaren and this I was not happy [with] because this was not like Schumi going to Ferrari,' Briatore told Formula 1's Beyond the Grid podcast. 'This was Fernando to go to McLaren, and for Fernando, McLaren was never in [his] dream. 'Especially I tell him: you have the new guy, and the new guy was Lewis Hamilton, and the new guy is in the pocket of Ron Dennis,...
Full Story »