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Fernando Alonso has only been in Asturias for a week. For four months he was "practically locked up" in Switzerland for fear of the coronavirus. In those hard days everything was ready for his return to Formula 1 to be a fact. "For two or three weeks the date of the announcement of my transfer to Renault had been agreed," the Asturian driver acknowledged in an interview with Cadena Cope, where he explained the reason for his return: "I was crazy about driving. I needed to get air outside of what Formula 1 was, but still driving. "

Their return to the paddock began in November last year: "I did not have a click in the head that told me to return, but with Renault the first conversation I had with them was in Abu Dhabi last year, in 2019. Since The possibility of returning was in my head last November. My illusion or the open door I had left in 2018 was the new regulations in 2021 with the new rules. They were delayed a year by the coronavirus and, well, that left the door open to think again or to put everything on the table. In the end I decided that I want, that I am strong and motivated to enter already next year. It was executed somehow a few weeks ago. "

The Asturian explained his opinion on this new regulation in Formula 1 that can open a door for him to fight with those from above. "This is why the change is made. In 2022 the cars are going to be very different. They have to completely change the design philosophies of the car, both aerodynamics and tires and ground effect. The engine more or less it will remain similar but I think there will be greater equality. The rules will also be very strict and the engineers will not have as much freedom of development. There are many pieces that will be the same for everyone, there is a budget limit, so There will not be teams that spend three times more and have more resources, so everything will be a little more equal. Although the result is not known, everything points to the fact that the performance of the cars will be much equal and the drivers will fight more than you to you. "

Alonso also revealed that he had offers to return to F1 shortly after announcing his departure in 2018. "The first offers came in 2019. I left Formula 1 in 2018 and received the first offers in the fourth or fifth race of the 2019 World Cup. Formula 1 is like soccer, when a race goes wrong or a driver makes a very serious mistake, there is already some tension, leaders often make calls to test other drivers outside of F1 and see how the situation is. We had some trial calls that year 2019 to run in 2020, but it was not in our plans to run this year. And offers on the table? I had no offers from Mercedes, which is the team with which everyone would sign with their eyes closed because you have an immediate winning car, but yes from Renault, "he assured.

Alonso acknowledged that although he is now in the best moment of his career, during the pandemic he was ill : "I was a bit of a slob for several weeks. I went to the hospital and a couple of times, they gave me a lot of tests and at the end We didn't really find out what it was. For fear of the coronavirus I tested myself non-stop but they always tested negative. "

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