{"id":481796,"date":"2024-04-11T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481796"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:30:08","slug":"alonso-inks-contract-extension-with-aston-martin-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alonso-inks-contract-extension-with-aston-martin-until-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso inks contract extension with Aston Martin until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has agreed to drive in Formula 1 for Aston Martin in the future with a new multi-year contract; the team shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Fernando Alonso re-signs at Aston Martin<\/p>\n<p>The two-time World Champion has signed a deal to remain at the Silverstone-based outfit \u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XNnw6Smnbu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XNnw6Smnbu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1778453622314950799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who is in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> campaign with Aston Martin, will now remain their pilot until at least 2026 when Formula One has a new set of regulations that could affect the competitive order.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso\u2019s team owner, Lawrence Stroll, has invested heavily in the club with the ambition of challenging for the world title and has secured Honda engines from the beginning of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It was rumored in the past months that Alonso will move to Mercedes to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton, but the ex-world champ appear set on inking Italian youngster Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who is currently competing in Formula 2 with Mercedes backing.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz, who Lewis will replace at the Italian F1 team, is very close to a contract with Sauber as the team will rebrand to Audi in 2026 when the German manufacturer joins Formula 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has agreed to drive in Formula 1 for Aston Martin in the future with a new multi-year contract; the team shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481797,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17468,17680],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[5792,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Fernando will drive for his current team until 2026.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481798,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481796\/revisions\/481798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481796"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481796"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}