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Fernando Alonso’s relationship with McLaren suffered another blow this week when he reportedly turned down the opportunity for peace-talks.

According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, Lewis Hamilton and team boss Ron Dennis are currently relaxing in the waters off Menorca aboard fellow McLaren founder Mansour Ojjeh’s 72-metre super-yacht.

While Hamilton has been onboard for a few days already, frolicking in the waves with Ojjeh’s daugher Sara, Dennis arrived earlier this week and invited Alonso to join the party.

The invitation was in the hope of ’smoothing tensions’ left over from the Hungarian GP qualifying debacle and arriving at a ‘pact for peaceful coexistence from now until the end of the season.’

Alonso, though, ‘declined’ the offer, opting to stick to his original holiday plans.

‘The divorce seems definitive and the possibilities of reconciliation, quite distant. The situation of extreme tension between Fernando Alonso and the rest of the McLaren team seems not to have improved in the last week,’ the newspaper said.

Following the Hungarian GP, which saw Alonso penalised for blocking his team-mate in the pits and preventing him from challenging for pole position, the double World Champion has been linked to a return to Renault at the end of the season as well as a move to BMW.

source: planet-f1.com