Alonso to replace Raikkonen at Ferrari in 2010

[CoDer]

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...9/9/10015.html

Bye rainman, you won't be missed.

[tidus1203]

Kimi will now go to McLaren most likely or if not quit F1 and go rallying... That means if he goes to McLaren then Kovalainen is booted and is now part of a tighter driver's market...

[CVT]

With Santander as one of the major sponsors of Ferrari next year,.......

8701:soccer:

[jjmd3_787]

Alonso will make Ferrari on the top of its class once again if ever this transaction pushes thru. I never believed in Raikkonen right from the start.

[KERSMcRae]

Reliability and Brand doesnt always come in the same package!

Going out from Ferrari can be the best move for the Iceman. The red cars have predictable DNFs this season, and probably next year.

[Monseratto]

I wonder if Lewis and Kimi will gel well at Mclaren. The last time Mclaren had two WDC together in their steed was nowhere peaceful...

[gearspeed]

Ferrari pa din ako.hehe.

[niky]

I never believed in Raikkonen right from the start.

So... almost becoming champion twice at McLaren and finally winning it two years ago with Ferrari were... nothing? Kimi is probably one of the fastest men ever to get into a Formula One car... he's not as graceful a driver as Hamilton, and doesn't have the masterful race craft and shrewdness of Alonso... but there's no denying he's a genius behind the wheel. He holds multiple records and is ranked by many analysts as being in the top ten of F1 drivers, past and present.

He never got his championships in McLaren because the cars kept breaking. Which is why he moved to Ferrari. All of the sudden... Ferrari's cars started breaking with regularity... ...someone up there doesn't like Kimi... :hysterical:

I wonder if Lewis and Kimi will gel well at Mclaren. The last time Mclaren had two WDC together in their steed was nowhere peaceful...

I wonder as well. Alonso, though... is really a tempermental guy when it comes to competition in-team... he demands treatment as a "number one" driver... much like Schumi... and it's logical... if a team wants one of their drivers to be champion, it can be done even with a car that is not massively superior than the competition if they put their resources and support behind the number one car... as shown with Alonso's double WDCs and Michael's seven WDCs (poor Rubens...). The thing is... Alonso really wasn't as quick as Lewis to come to grips with the McLaren. The Renault suited his style much better. And while he spent half a season fighting it instead of learning it, Lewis got on with the car right away. It took Alonso half a season to master the car, then finally beat Hamilton on track. The whole time, he was whining and moaning about his treatment... because McLaren refused to have a "number one driver" (though they seem to have changed with the Lewis-Hekki combo).

Kimi is a different character... he's not keen to take on a leadership role, and lately, seems to only step up... or even wake up... when he really needs to. Maybe this will be the move that puts the fire back into him... up against a driver who could be his equal.

[CVT]

Where will this move 'place' our dear FM?.....

8701:soccer:

[niky]

Hmmm... FM vesus FA? Depends on what Massa's condition is next season. If he's still on top of his game, as in the past two seasons... Alonso will have a hard time with him.

[Monseratto]

I guess the FA-FM pairing won't be peaceful...

Massa hits out against crash-gate robbery

Felipe Massa has got his 2010 pairing at Ferrari with Fernando Alonso off to an awkward start, asserting that the Spaniard's controversial win in Singapore last year "robbed" him of the world championship.

The Brazilian, who is recuperating from serious head injuries and set to return as Alonso's team-mate next season, suggested that the 28-year-old should have been disqualified as the winner of F1's first night race over the 'crash-gate' affair.

"All of what happened was robbery - but regarding the race nothing has happened, the result remains the same. This is not right," Massa told Brazilian Globo television.

"The robbery changed the outcome of a championship and I lost," he added, referring to Ferrari's botched pitstop that was triggered by the safety car period to clear Nelson Piquet's deliberately crashed Renault.

Massa said he cannot understand why F1's results are set in stone just weeks after the end of each championship, even when serious race-fixing later comes to light.

"I have seen in football how a referee took money to throw a game and all the suspect results were annulled," he charged.

"In Italy, Juventus were relegated. But here they just sent Briatore home. I don't get it and I don't think it was right."

Source: GMM
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[overdrayv]

[CVT]

Hhhhmmmm,- happy faces? Let's observe them in the racetrack...... It's almost March....

9202:toothbrush:

[Monseratto]

Nice shoes...