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Renault hints at Alonso return
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Formula One team Renault will reportedly change its drivers for next season, one of whom could be two-time world champion Fernando Alonso.

"Renault will certainly have different drivers next year," Renault boss Flavio Briatore was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency on Monday. "Alonso has a 60 percent chance of coming to us."

The futures of current Renault drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen were thrown into doubt earlier this month when Alonso quit F1 rival McLaren after only one season.

A move to Renault would see Alonso rejoin the team where he won the 2005 and '06 world championships, but the Spaniard has also been linked to Toyota and Red Bull.

"We have an advantage because we know him. He will decide between today and tomorrow," Briatore said. "When you get married, you break up and you get back together again, it's not easy."

Briatore also suggested that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who retired at the end of the 2006 season, could stage a comeback after testing for Ferrari last week.

(Shanghai Daily via Agencies November 21, 2007)

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