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Renault would be happy to have Fernando Alonso back at the wheel of an Enstone-built car. Engineering director Pat Symonds, instrumental in the Spaniard's back to back titles in 2005 and 2006, refuses to rule out a scenario where Alonso returns to the French squad.
"I bet he's glad he's not with us this year since we haven't come up with a car he'd want to drive," the Briton told the magazine F1 Racing. "He is a damn good driver though and we'd happily have him back." Symonds thinks Alonso, 25, might have decided to switch to McLaren primarily because of the speculation at the time about Renault's future in formula one. "They were strong rumours so I absolutely don't criticise him for taking the decision to leave," he said. But he added that "I know engineers who have left us to join other teams who have then come back saying it wasn't quite what they thought it would be."
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