Fernando Alonso admitted he has input into who his future Ferrari team mate might be.
The two-times world champion added he'd be happy for Sebastian Vettel or Lewis Hamilton to join the team.
Asked in the European Grand Prix press conference whether he has previously had a say in team's other choice of driver Alonso said: 'In the past, never. Now, in Ferrari, yes.'
'I'm in Italy every week. So when we are there I see the president, I see Stefano [Domenicali] and we talk about development of the car, we talk about GT ' now there is some work doing a new car that will be at the end of the year, we are doing some tests for the GT car.
'We talk about the future in F1, about the Corse Clienti ' which is owners that have old Formula 1 [cars] that they want us to be there to teach some senior drivers ' and also about the future and team mates as well.'
Asked if he could veto a potential driver Alonso said: 'I doubt ' we talk but, at the end, it's their decision.'
He responded 'no problem' to the suggestion of rejoining his 2007 team mate Lewis Hamilton or welcoming reigning champion Sebastian Vettel to Ferrari. Yesterday Domenicali suggested Alonso and Vettel could 'coexist' at the team.
Alonso indicated he'd have no objections to whichever driver might take Felipe Massa's place.
He added some words in support of his team mate: 'I have a lot of respect for Felipe. And I think the challenging moment that, even if from the outside it's difficult to notice this, what a challenging time he's given to me in the last three years, it's not that, even if from the outside it looks easy.'
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