{"id":2164,"date":"2010-02-05T06:39:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2010-02-05T06:39:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:39:40","slug":"massa-not-promising-to-stay-at-ferrari-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-not-promising-to-stay-at-ferrari-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa not promising to stay at Ferrari forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Felipe Massa has declined to echo teammate Fernando Alonso&#8217;s pledge to never again switch to a rival formula one team.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After signing a new long-term contract with Ferrari, 28-year-old Alonso said recently the probability is &#8220;100 per cent&#8221; that he will end his career with the Maranello based team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Brazilian Massa, although the same age as his new Spanish teammate, said he cannot make the same pledge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am 28.\u00a0 How can I promise?&#8221; he said in an interview with Italy&#8217;s Corriere dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alonso is right when he says that leaving Ferrari to go to a better place is unlikely if not possible,&#8221; Massa continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel at home here (at Ferrari), but I also want to race for many more years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Massa&#8217;s current contract ends this season, following five years in the race seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have mentioned a renewal,&#8221; he said when asked about his expiring deal.<\/p>\n<p>Massa denied that his main competitor for the 2011 race seat is the MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course not,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;Valentino has been 90 per cent playing, and 10 per cent seeing if he could have a future in cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But at his age it is not so easy to start building up the necessary experience,&#8221; said Massa.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa has declined to echo teammate Fernando Alonso&#8217;s pledge to never again switch to a rival formula one team. \u00a0 After signing a new long-term contract with Ferrari, 28-year-old Alonso said recently the probability is &#8220;100 per cent&#8221; that he will end his career with the Maranello based team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,130,149,93,445],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}