F1: Santander to announce Ferrari deal
09-08-2009, 11:16 PM
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F1: Santander to announce Ferrari deal
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78430
Ferrari will announce its sponsorship deal with Spanish banking giants Santander at Monza on Thursday, confirming a deal that was first revealed by AUTOSPORT in July last year.
Ferrari is to hold a press conference ahead of the Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and the president of the Bank of Santander, Emilio Botin.
The Santander alliance comes amid continued speculation that Spaniard Fernando Alonso is also on his way to Ferrari, although it is not known if an announcement about the Maranello team's 2010 driver plans will be made at Monza this weekend.
Ferrari has already stated that it is waiting for Felipe Massa to be fully fit for the start of next season, and it has a contract with Kimi Raikkonen too - although there is a chance this could be bought out.
Santander entered Formula 1 in 2007 with the McLaren team, on the back of its signing of Alonso, and its contract with the Woking-based team runs until the end of this year.
Ferrari is to hold a press conference ahead of the Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and the president of the Bank of Santander, Emilio Botin.
The Santander alliance comes amid continued speculation that Spaniard Fernando Alonso is also on his way to Ferrari, although it is not known if an announcement about the Maranello team's 2010 driver plans will be made at Monza this weekend.
Ferrari has already stated that it is waiting for Felipe Massa to be fully fit for the start of next season, and it has a contract with Kimi Raikkonen too - although there is a chance this could be bought out.
Santander entered Formula 1 in 2007 with the McLaren team, on the back of its signing of Alonso, and its contract with the Woking-based team runs until the end of this year.
09-13-2009, 10:45 PM
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I actually heard or read that somewhere that Kimi was speaking to McLaren. Where else can he go? Mercedes is looking to becoming part owner of Force India. May be there.
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Nico is going to McLaren. 
according to BBC's segment before quali, everyone is just waiting for Ferrari/Alonso deal to be announced. then the moves will start happening. they mentioned that the problem right now with Ferrari is Massa. if Massa isn't able to drive next year, then they will be screwed if they released Kimi.
according to BBC's segment before quali, everyone is just waiting for Ferrari/Alonso deal to be announced. then the moves will start happening. they mentioned that the problem right now with Ferrari is Massa. if Massa isn't able to drive next year, then they will be screwed if they released Kimi.
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Nico is going to McLaren.
according to BBC's segment before quali, everyone is just waiting for Ferrari/Alonso deal to be announced. then the moves will start happening. they mentioned that the problem right now with Ferrari is Massa. if Massa isn't able to drive next year, then they will be screwed if they released Kimi.
according to BBC's segment before quali, everyone is just waiting for Ferrari/Alonso deal to be announced. then the moves will start happening. they mentioned that the problem right now with Ferrari is Massa. if Massa isn't able to drive next year, then they will be screwed if they released Kimi.
09-20-2009, 09:46 PM
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Gagan,
Kimi may be on the move. I guess that's why Mercedes was trying to buy a share of Brawn since Mercedes was the force behind Nico.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/200920...aren-2010.html
Former Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen ‘has signed an outline agreement’ to return to McLaren-Mercedes in 2010, sources have revealed – in a move that would free up a place at Ferrari for Fernando Alonso, and likely see Nico Rosberg jump ship from Williams to current world championship leaders Brawn GP.
According to British newspaper the Daily Mirror, Raikkonen – who Ferrari are desperately trying to buy out of his €25 million contract for next season – has in principle agreed to rejoin his erstwhile Woking employers, with whom he competed in the top flight from 2002 to 2006, securing half of his 18 grand prix triumphs to-date with the multiple world championship-winning British outfit.
Though that relationship did not end on the best of terms – with the Finn’s well-documented party-loving lifestyle not going down too well in the very clinical and regimented McLaren atmosphere – it seems both sides could now be willing to give things another go.
The one sticking point, it is understood, is Ferrari’s continuing reluctance to pay Raikkonen his full 2010 retainer, with the 29-year-old similarly refusing to budge until he has received the money in its entirety.
Should a deal indeed go through, however, it would spell the end of Rosberg’s on-off flirtation with a future in silver, and possibly pave the way for the highly-rated young German to join Brawn in place of Rubens Barrichello.
It is believed that Mercedes-Benz has been pushing hard for McLaren to snap up the services of the son of 1982 F1 World Champion Keke Rosberg for next year – to replace the underperforming Heikki Kovalainen – but with rumours suggesting that the Stuttgart manufacturer may now be edging more towards a buy-out or at least partial buy-out of Brawn rather than extending its 15-year partnership with the Silver Arrows, the pieces of the complicated driver jigsaw could finally be beginning to fall into place.
Kimi may be on the move. I guess that's why Mercedes was trying to buy a share of Brawn since Mercedes was the force behind Nico.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/200920...aren-2010.html
Former Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen ‘has signed an outline agreement’ to return to McLaren-Mercedes in 2010, sources have revealed – in a move that would free up a place at Ferrari for Fernando Alonso, and likely see Nico Rosberg jump ship from Williams to current world championship leaders Brawn GP.
According to British newspaper the Daily Mirror, Raikkonen – who Ferrari are desperately trying to buy out of his €25 million contract for next season – has in principle agreed to rejoin his erstwhile Woking employers, with whom he competed in the top flight from 2002 to 2006, securing half of his 18 grand prix triumphs to-date with the multiple world championship-winning British outfit.
Though that relationship did not end on the best of terms – with the Finn’s well-documented party-loving lifestyle not going down too well in the very clinical and regimented McLaren atmosphere – it seems both sides could now be willing to give things another go.
The one sticking point, it is understood, is Ferrari’s continuing reluctance to pay Raikkonen his full 2010 retainer, with the 29-year-old similarly refusing to budge until he has received the money in its entirety.
Should a deal indeed go through, however, it would spell the end of Rosberg’s on-off flirtation with a future in silver, and possibly pave the way for the highly-rated young German to join Brawn in place of Rubens Barrichello.
It is believed that Mercedes-Benz has been pushing hard for McLaren to snap up the services of the son of 1982 F1 World Champion Keke Rosberg for next year – to replace the underperforming Heikki Kovalainen – but with rumours suggesting that the Stuttgart manufacturer may now be edging more towards a buy-out or at least partial buy-out of Brawn rather than extending its 15-year partnership with the Silver Arrows, the pieces of the complicated driver jigsaw could finally be beginning to fall into place.
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