In 1983, despite challenging for the title, the relationship between Prost and Renault was getting worse and worse. Rumours started to circulate that the frenchmen might leave to drive for Ferrari in 1984.
Eventually, he signed on for 1984 with Renault.
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BREAKING: Daniel Ricciardo is out of the Dutch Grand Prix with a break in his hand after his FP2 incident, and will be will be replaced by Liam Lawson.
Get well soon Daniel!
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After impressive performanes in Formula Atlantic, there were rumours that Gilles Villeneuve might make his debut in F1 in the latter part of the 1976 season, with the Wolf-Williams team.
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Mark Blundell had an impressive debut season in 1991, scoring Yamaha's first F1 points, and this attracted interest from rival teams, namingly Footwork and Tyrrell. Brabham also had an option on him for '92, but did not take it.
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In 1987 Mauro Baldi came extremely close to join Brabham, but the team eventually opted for de Cesaris, who had Marlboro's money behind him.
Later on Baldi was rumoured to be going to Tyrrell, but that did not materialise either.
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After his consistent performanes in the Benetton, Ferrari started negotiations with Thierry Boutsen.
Despite the talks, the italians rather brought Mansell in, with the belgian taking the seat at Williams, which was vacated by the briton.
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In 2002, Jaguar borrowed Fernando Alonso from Renault, for a test to measure it's test drivers compared to him.
Of course rumours about Alonso going to Jaguar set off, but the spaniard did not need to resort to Jaguar, as he got the Renault drive.
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Before joining Tyrrell at the last minute for 1992, Andrea de Cesaris was linked to join both Minardi and March, as he was forced out of Jordan due to his personal Marlboro tobacco sponsorship clashing with Jordan's Barclays.
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The feeling when you were supposed to drive Williams 2007 F1 car today, but rain came down and we don’t drive it in the rain. There isn’t even rain tyres😥
Ahead of the 1995 season, Mark Blundell, whose option was not taken up by Tyrrell, was linked to join the Simtek team.
I think the partnership of Blundell and Verstappen would have been very strong, good for any midfield team to have.
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Two italian F3000 stars, Emanuele Naspetti and Andrea Montermini were in contention for a 1995 Forti seat.
Many surprising names were linked to the team, such as Christian Fittipaldi, Alex Zanard, Mauricio Gugelmin and Allan McNish.
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Bruno Junqiera is most known in F1 circles for losing out for a Williams drive to Jenson Button.
After that, he won F3000 and had a meeting with Tom Walkinshaw over a 2001 Arrows drive.
He reportedly had F1 offers, but opted to race in CART instead.
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Jaime Alguersuari turned down an offer from HRT ahead of the 2012 season, stating it would be a step backwards.
This left the seat up for grabs, with Vitaly Petrov and Jerome d'Ambrosio eyeing for it.
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