Renault may be pulling out of F1. Alonso jumps ship!

Renault may withdraw from F1 after 2007. This is not fact, but it is expected that new CEO Carlos Ghosn will pull the plug on F1 funding unless Renault stay in the top three teams. Renault\'s sales are slumping too it seems, which may be more to do with dodgy cars than the marketing impact of F1.

Meanwhile, Alonso has announced that he\'s moving to McLaren in 2007, so he\'s not waiting to find out. This news, along with the strong possibility of Raikonnen winning the championship next year and and Vodafone switching from Ferrari to McLaren, means that the team could well find themselves with two world championship drivers along with the money to pay them well. It\'d make for some pretty amazing in-team rivalry on track.

No doubt, McLaren will be more inclined to want to hang on to Raikonnen than Montoya after last season, and while Ferrari would no doubt want to snare Raikonnen, will they be able to afford him with potentially tighter budgets?