BMW_F1 wrote:You are just speculating because no one here knows the truth about the details in the contracts..
I'm afraid that's the way it works. Drivers always know the situation they're walking into. Alas, Alonso didn't know who Lewis Hamilton was at the time he signed.

That part has little to do with contracts so I don't know why you're claiming that this is speculation about contracts.
So you are saying also that Kimi moved to Ferrari because he knew Shumi was leaving..? everyone is entitled to an opinion but don't try to pass it as fact..
We can't prove that Raikkonen
didn't know that Schumacher wouldn't be there when he signed and that Alonso
didn't know that Raikkonen wouldn't be there when he signed. Everyone always ends up saying that it's all opinions.
Unfortunately, Raikkonen and Alonso
not knowing is
not a fact either in the way that you're trying to imply. The net effect is that's the way it all worked out so we work on the balance of what probably happened. When you sign over a year in advance you want to know what things will be like when you get there.
IMO, both Mclaren and Alonso did not want each other after the Hungary/FIA fiasco..
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They'd fallen out long, long before that came to a head........