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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Rules Clarified in the driver briefing:About cutting an coner.

The FIA have clarified the rule that has sparked controversy this week, following Lewis Hamilton's corner-cutting manoeuvre in last Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.

In a drivers' briefing at Monza ahead of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix, race director Charlie Whiting cleared up the confusion.

If a driver now cuts a corner or chicane and gains a place, he not only has to give the position back, but also wait a corner before attempting a subsequent overtaking move.

The debate has raged over the past few days after Hamilton cut the final chicane at Spa, passing Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to gain the lead in the process.

Although the McLaren driver immediately allowed the reigning world champion to pass along the start-finish straight, he then overtook the Finn at the next turn, the La Source hairpin.

Hamilton went on to win the race, but was subsequently demoted to third two hours after the race after a three-man panel of stewards handed out a retrospective 25-second drive-through penalty.

Speaking on the clarification, Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber said: "It is pretty clear for people to probably not attack immediately again, which wasn't mega, mega clear in the past."


Friday, September 12, 2008

Kimi Raikkonen Renews His Ferrari contract: Will Race With Ferrari till 2010 end


Ferrari have extended world champion Kimi Raikkonen's contract to the end of the 2010 season, ending speculation about the Finn's future at the team.

Raikkonen's deal had been due to end at the end of 2009, and there had been reports that Fernando Alonso was set to replace him either then or next year.

But Ferrari said in a statement on Friday that their line-up would remain unchanged for the next two seasons.

Raikkonen's team-mate Felipe Massa also has a contract until 2010.

Raikkonen has produced a string of unconvincing performances this season, when he has often looked a shadow of the man who made a spectacular late charge to win his first drivers' title last season.

The 28-year-old, who is the highest-paid driver in F1, has often been overshadowed by Massa this season and lies third in the championship, 17 points behind the Brazilian and 19 behind McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, heading into Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

Raikkonen has so far indicated his reluctance to help Massa's title bid while he still has a mathematical chance of winning the championship himself.

It remains to be seen whether his new deal will have any effect on that approach.



So lacklustre have some of his performances been that there had even been claims that he might leave the team at the end of this season, freeing up a space for Alonso.

The Spanish double world champion is known to be a favourite of Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and is keen to drive for Ferrari in the future.

Alonso has an option to get out of his two-year Renault contract at the end of this season if he wishes and is being courted by the struggling Honda team, as well as BMW Sauber.

He remains the key to this season's driver market, but his options for the future have narrowed considerably now he knows that there will likely be no seat at Ferrari available until at least 2011.

David Coulthard's Take On Lewis/Kimi Incident and the belgian Row-


David Coulthard has rubbished suggestions that Formula One risks being damaged by the Belgian Grand Prix controversy - and instead says it will move on quickly from the events of last week.

While the debate over Lewis Hamilton's 25-second penalty at Spa raged on in the paddock at Monza on Thursday, Coulthard said that he would seek clarification about the rules regarding chicane cutting in Friday's driving briefing before expecting the focus to revert to racing.

When asked whether he felt F1 risked losing fans over the matter, Coulthard said: "You can start micro-analysing all this, saying it is bad for the kids and so on. If you want to look at all these things, then the answer to your question can always be yes.

"But, you can do two things in life – you can dwell on the past or you can try and get clarification on things and move forward. That is the way I live my life.

"In the drivers' briefing tomorrow we will try and get clarification about the conditions we are racing under and we will move forward. And when some fans go, some fans come. That is the natural evolution of life."

Regarding the incident itself, Coulthard said that although Hamilton did give the lead back to Raikkonen, there was obviously a belief by the stewards that the McLaren driver gained a further advantage.

And he said that, whatever the varied opinions are of the matter, it was important the sport respected decisions made by the stewards.

"The rules as we understand them as drivers if that if you gain advantage then you should give that position back. So that means if you overtake under yellow you should give that position back; if you miss a corner and gain a position you should give it back.

"In the simplest way as we see it, he fulfilled that criteria. The area that obviously the stewards have applied a penalty for is, did he gain an advantage by missing the corner? Did that allow him to be in the slipstream of Raikkonen where he would not have been had he actually taken the corner normally?

"It is a very difficult one for us to know, at the end of the day in any sport and in any walk of life, you are controlled by certain rules and regulations and you will not always appreciate them, or agree with them, but as long as they are applied consistently then that is the world in which we live.

"Whether you like it, whether I like it, whether Lewis likes it, whether thousands of fans like it, they are the stewards, they are the police of our sport, and they have to be consistent in their behaviour."

He added: "At the end of the day this is a sport. There are a set of rules and regulations, and the race track is defined by the white lines. In Monaco you don't cut corners, you hit barriers.

"You can argue it was not Monaco, but the driver would have respected the corner if there was a barrier there. Lewis knew there was no barrier so he cut the corner.

"He did not need to go across there particularly, he did because he tried to go side-by-side with Raikkonen and Kimi squashed him in that position. From a driving point of view you have to look at the white lines as barriers

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Lewis Hamilton V/s Kimi Raikkonen-SPA Francorchamps-Video

Initial part of the race...and the initial battle


Final Controversial part(cameraview top/helicopter)

Monday, September 8, 2008

Can Kimi Still win the Championship??-Mathematically YES!!



Yes still can win the championship if- (kimi wins each and every race remaining in the calendar) hamilton finishes 3rd in each and every race from now
or he finishes 2nd in 3 races and finshes 5th and 8th in the other two...!

or he finishes 1st in 3 races and retires in the other two or finishes 9th..or less..;-)


and please dont forget massa......maybe in the battle of two cats an monkey may steal the bread..!!!!....like what happened at SPA!!!!


Friday, September 5, 2008

FIA Press Conference-Belgium-4sept

This is an Extract of the press conference held on 4th sept 2008 at belgium,drivers who were present in the conference include-Kimi Raikkonen,Nick Heidfeld,Kazuki Nakajima and Sebestain Vettel,The answers given by the drivers are quite good and the questions asked by the reporters are also entertaining...making me post it on my blog-

Q: (Heikki Kulta - Turun Sanomat) Kimi, you have a variety of weather here; what would you prefer for this weekend?
KR:
Either it's dry or raining all the time. It's much easier for everybody. When it gets between those two weathers you have more luck involved. It's more if you get it right or wrong when it starts raining and it gets drier, so hopefully it's… for me, anything is good but maybe dry would nice.

Q: (Juha Päätalo - Financial Times Deutschland) Kimi, last year you had similar problems in qualifying but you were able to solve that. How much can the work of last year help you to find a solution because it hasn't yet been that way. Is the car very different from last year on that point?
KR:
No, but we haven't solved the issues yet. We had similar issues last year at some point of the season. We were pretty OK at the beginning of this season and then it seems to have turned a bit worse. Hopefully we will get back to where we were earlier on but we will see now if we have made improvements or not, then we will go from there.

Q: (Mike Doodson) This is a question for all four of you about pit stops. David Coulthard recently said that he thought the racing would be more interesting if there were no pit stops. He thinks that pit stops distort the results of the races. We've also had incidents with fires in Hungary and a mechanic who was hurt in Valencia. I'm interested to know if you drivers would be interested or would like to see the end of pit stops, which, incidentally, came in 15 years ago.
NH:
Well, hopefully we will see more overtaking next year with the new regulations but until we've had a couple of races we don't know. And as we all know, overtaking is so difficult that I think it would be a good idea to keep the pit stops to at least see some (overtaking).
KR: We see now most of the overtaking taking place at the pit stops, so without them, we probably will be running behind each other more, nothing really happening. Sometimes people get hurt in the pit stops unfortunately but that's part of racing, so it hasn't been too bad.
SV: I think when we are about to retire, we are looking for more interesting races as well because we will be in a position to watch the races. Honestly, in the car the races are pretty interesting and you are pretty busy. As Nick said, next year there should be more overtaking, so hopefully that by the time we are retiring the racing is more interesting.
KN: In my opinion it's better to keep the pit stops because at the moment that's the thing which makes the difference between other drivers, so we have a bit of choice for strategy. Sometimes it makes the racing more interesting.

Q: (Thierry Wilmotte - Le Soir) Kimi, everybody knows that team orders are not allowed, but can you imagine that at the end of the season you can decide on your own to help Felipe to fight for the title?
KR:
It can happen. It all depends on how the next races go and where we are at the end of the year but we race as a team. We will see. Hopefully we don't end up in this situation, hopefully I will be in the championship up to the last race. But you never know what happens.

Q: To all of you: what is on your i-Pod?
KN:
Any kind of music but most of it is Japanese pop. Since I came to Europe, I especially tend to listen more to Japanese songs, maybe to remind me of home.
SV: Any kind really, German folk songs are my favourite. Anything really, a bit of everything.
KR: Mostly Finnish music, all sorts. You wouldn't know, so it doesn't matter what I say.
NH: Yeah, similar to the others, a lot of different stuff, not a lot of classic stuff. No German folk music, more in the direction of R&B, hip-hop, not so much techno, more chill-out but various stuff.
SV: Why don't you like folk songs?
NH: Why do you like it, that's more difficult to answer, I think?
SV: I like the lyrics.
NH: I like the smile on the singers' faces, just like yours.

Q: Is Eau Rouge your favourite corner, and if so why?
NH:
Ah, that's pretty easy to answer for me. It's not my favourite corner. In the past it was very exciting but nowadays with V8s and so much grip, it is not a big challenge any more.
KR: Yeah, from a driving point of view, at least, it's not really a corner. It's more straight for us. In the wet it's quite exciting but as Nick said, before it was much more challenging and the cars are better and we don't go so fast, so it's not a big deal any more.
SV: I still think it's a very nice corner and everybody would miss it if it wasn't part of the calendar but it's true, it's not that challenging, at least in dry conditions. I crashed here in wet conditions and it's more challenging definitely.
KN: For me it was good in GP2 but I will probably find it's going to be easier to go flat-out (in F1), so maybe less fun.

Q: If you were not an F1 driver, what would you be doing?
KN:
That's a very difficult question. I have no idea but I think I would probably be doing something related to racing because that's the only thing that I'm interested in, even not as a driver, maybe doing something in racing.
SV: If I wouldn't have made it, I think I would look for the best possible education to get in the highest position to tell the drivers that made it in motorsport how they should do it the right way.
KR: It would probably be something to do with motorsport. It's always been part of my life, so I wouldn't think it would be much different in some other category or motocross or something like that.
NH: Yeah, pretty similar, actually. I enjoy sports a lot and most likely with an engine involved, probably motorbikes would have been interesting, rallying or whatever, just competing, travelling the world and doing sport.

Q: (Mike Doodson) So which is your favourite corner?
NH:
My favourite corner is the Esses at Suzuka which have not been there (on the calendar this year), so I'm looking forward to next year.
KR: I don't really know. There are a lot of nice corners, so it's hard to pick one.
SV: Yeah, I would say there are too many. Probably the one in Montreal when you go to the personal parking, the right hander is quite nice! No, there are so many corners. I enjoy all of the tracks, so I like a lot of corners.
KN: Yeah, I agree with Nick, I think the Esses or the first and second corners at Suzuka would be nice, which I've never done in an F1 car but I'm sure it will be good.
courtsey-formula1.com and FIA

Saturday, August 2, 2008

2008 ING Hungarian GP-Hungaroring-Budapest-Race-Results


1 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 70 Winner 2 10
2 12 Timo Glock Toyota 70 +11.0 secs 5 8
3 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 70 +16.8 secs 6 6
4 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 70 +21.6 secs 7 5
5 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 70 +23.0 secs 1 4
6 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 70 +32.2 secs 10 3
7 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 70 +36.4 secs 9 2
8 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 70 +48.3 secs 4 1
9 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 70 +58.8 secs 8
10 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 70 +67.7 secs 15
11 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 70 +70.4 secs 13
12 16 Jenson Button Honda 69 +1 Lap 12
13 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 69 +1 Lap 16
14 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 69 +1 Lap 14
15 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 69 +1 Lap 18
16 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 68 +2 Laps 17
17 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 67 +3 Laps 3
18 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 67 +3 Laps 19
Ret 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 62 +8 Laps 20
Ret 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 22 +48 Laps 11

Friday-2nd Practise session timings-Hungaroring-Budapest-ING Hungarian GP 2008


1 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.554
35
2 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:20.748 0.194 38
3 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.760 0.206 33
4 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:20.928 0.374 35
5 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:21.009 0.455 36
6 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:21.010 0.456 36
7 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:21.138 0.584 46
8 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:21.363 0.809 36
9 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:21.505 0.951 42
10 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:21.581 1.027 34
11 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:21.662 1.108 39
12 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:21.733 1.179 43
13 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:21.837 1.283 34
14 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:21.902 1.348 33
15 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:21.955 1.401 41
16 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:22.150 1.596 41
17 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:22.197 1.643 36
18 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:22.358 1.804 37
19 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:22.448 1.894 33
20 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:22.945 2.391 5

Friday-1st Practise session timings-Hungaroring-Budapest-ING Hungarian GP 2008


1 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:20.981
19
2 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:21.345 0.364 21
3 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.410 0.429 17
4 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.535 0.554 18
5 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:21.802 0.821 18
6 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:21.931 0.950 22
7 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:22.267 1.286 18
8 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:22.326 1.345 19
9 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:22.370 1.389 22
10 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:22.457 1.476 25
11 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:22.654 1.673 23
12 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:22.700 1.719 16
13 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:22.900 1.919 26
14 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:22.917 1.936 27
15 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:23.093 2.112 26
16 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:23.147 2.166 21
17 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:23.274 2.293 22
18 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:23.353 2.372 25
19 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:23.459 2.478 28
20 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:23.923 2.942 4

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hugarian GP

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The first Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungarian: Magyar Nagydíj) was held on June 21, 1936 over a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) track laid out in Népliget[1], a park in Budapest. The Mercedes-Benz, Auto Union, and Ferrari teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing war meant the end of Grand Prix motor racing in the country for fifty years.

A major coup by Bernie Ecclestone, the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first Formula One race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Held at the twisty Hungaroring near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar. Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also holds the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. The first Grand Prix saw 200,000 people[1] spectating, although tickets were expensive at the time. Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns.[2].

Due to the nature of the track, narrow, twisty and often dusty because of under-use, the Hungarian Grand Prix is associated with processional races, with sometimes many cars following one another, unable to pass. Thierry Boutsen demonstrated this perfectly in 1990, keeping his slower Williams car in front of champion-elect Ayrton Senna, unable to find a way by. The secret to a winning performance at Hungaroring, as well as qualifying well, is pit strategy, best demonstrated in 1998, where Michael Schumacher's Ferrari team changed his strategy mid-race before Schumacher put in one of his finest drives to build up a winning margin after all the stops had been made. Passing is a rarity here, although the 1989 race saw a famously bullish performance from Nigel Mansell in the Ferrari, who started from 12th on the grid and passed car after car, finally taking the lead in splendid opportunist style when Ayrton Senna was baulked by a slower runner. The circuit was modified slightly in 2003 in an attempt to allow more passing.

Other notable occasions in Budapest include first Grand Prix wins for Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso (in 2003), the first Grand Prix winner from Spain, who also became the youngest ever driver to win a GP and Jenson Button in an incident-packed race in 2006. Also noteworthy is Damon Hill's stunning near win in the unfancied Arrows-Yamaha in 1997, when his car lost drive on the last lap causing him to coast in second place.

In 2001, Michael Schumacher equalled Alain Prost's then record 51 Grand Prix wins at the Hungaroring, in the drive which also secured his 4th World Title.

The 2006 Grand Prix was the first to be held here in wet conditions. It also saw Mansell's seventeen-year-old record of winning from 12th broken, as Button took his victory from 14th place on the grid.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

2008 german Gp-hockenhiem,Race Results


1 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 67 1:31:20.874 1 10
2 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 67 +5.5 secs 17 8
3 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 67 +9.3 secs 2 6
4 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 67 +9.8 secs 12 5
5 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 67 +12.4 secs 3 4
6 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 67 +14.4 secs 6 3
7 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 67 +22.6 secs 7 2
8 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 67 +33.2 secs 9 1
9 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 67 +37.1 secs 4
10 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 67 +37.6 secs 13
11 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 67 +38.6 secs 5
12 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 67 +39.1 secs 15
13 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 67 +54.9 secs 10
14 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 67 +59.0 secs 20
15 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 67 +60.0 secs 16
16 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 67 +69.4 secs 19
17 16 Jenson Button Honda 66 +1 Lap 14
Ret 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 50 Accident damage 18
Ret 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 40 Oil leak 8
Ret 12 Timo Glock Toyota 35 Accident 11

Saturday, July 19, 2008

2008-German GP hockenhiem-Qualifying Results





POS
DRIVER NATIONALITY ENTRANT TIME
1. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.666
2. Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari 1:15.859
3. Heikki Kovalainen Finland McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.143
4. Jarno Trulli Italy Toyota 1:16.191
5. Fernando Alonso Spain Renault 1:16.385
6. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Ferrari 1:16.389
7. Robert Kubica Poland BMW Sauber 1:16.521
8. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1:17.014
9. Sebastian Vettel Germany Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:17.244
10. David Coulthard Britain Red Bull-Renault 1:17.503
11. Timo Glock Germany Toyota 1:15.508
12. Nick Heidfeld Germany BMW Sauber 1:15.581
13. Nico Rosberg Germany Williams-Toyota 1:15.633
14. Jenson Button Britain Honda 1:15.701
15. Sebastien Bourdais France Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:15.858
16. Kazuki Nakajima Japan Williams-Toyota 1:16.083
17. Nelson Piquet Brazil Renault 1:16.189
18. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Honda 1:16.246
19. Adrian Sutil Germany Force India-Ferrari 1:16.657
20. Giancarlo Fisichella Italy Force India-Ferrari 1:16.963

Friday, July 18, 2008

Santander....joins ferrari will Hamilton and/or alonso follow suit????


Santander is poised to join Ferrari as their sponsor after the contract with McLaren expires at the end of this year,actually i wont have been discussing this on my blog...but the twist is Santander also has(or rather always had) an sponsorship deal with Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.Santander Joined hands with McLaren in a bid to make the best of their sponsored driver Fernando Alonso's stay at McLaren...but things went against them when alonso having a bad time with McLaren quit McLaren to join ING Renault...which is sponsored by ING an Dutch bank...which is an possible Rival of Santander an Spanish bank.

Now Santander as is Joining Ferrari in 2009 it wants it sponsored drivers(Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton) to join Ferrari too.Santander is reported to be paying both the drivers Alonso and Hamilton an extrobidant amount and both wont be really happy to lose the sponsor(Santander).
But the Fact is Ferrari doesn't have an vacant seat for any driver(test driver seats...may be...lol fernando alonso and Lewis hamilton leaving Mclaren and Renault repectively...to join ferrari as test drivers...what a funny line it is!!! ;-) LOLz).Kimi Raikkonen has an contract till the end of 2009 and Felipe Massa having his contract lasting till the end of 2010,if lewis(doubtful) or Fernando(he's despirate) wan to join ferrari(in 2009) than maybe Ferrari would have to terminate the contract with Kimi or Massa....and i don't find a reason why massa would want to leave ferrari(that to terminating contract mid way) as no team(not even Force India would be intrested in him...you could ask them....ya if Sutil quits..but replacement with fisi or sutil...Mr.Mallya or Gascoyne no one would be as much keen...aah leave it..!!!) and after this bad show at particular circuits and a lot of show of immature driving...Massa would have surely lost his seat this year but thanks to the big trust of Ferrari on him(that was once there) they had signed a contract with him till 2010....
So Fernando may get to race with ferrari not before the start of 2010 season...that to if Kimi(who was rumoured to be retiring from f-1 at the end of this season) intends to quit...as ferrari wont be happy throwing out Kimi and replacing him with Alonso....

Felipe Massa;Anthony Hamilton having a talk with Stefano Domencali

Talking about Lewis Hamilton joining ferrari...as recently many had reported that his dad cum manager Mr.Anthony Hamilton was seen talking to ferrari official Stefano Domenicali...and it could well be possible that they were talking about Lewis's switching to ferrari in near future may be after Kimi quits...it could again be nothing less than impossible cause Hamilton firstly has an 5yr contract with McLaren which ends in year 2011(starting in 2007)and again the boy who was supported by Ron Dennis and has some really big favours from him wont be most probably leaving McLaren....but still you cannot predict anything unless we are ferrari or Mclaren officials!!...
But the conclusion is that Alonso will be joining Ferrari for sure at least by 2010(but considering that Renault doesnt deliver an championship winning car in 2009 and Kimi quits F-1) and Hamilton surely not till 2012 so...the only one that's joining Ferrari at present is 'Santander'...!!!!
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