{"id":4247,"date":"2010-04-08T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:39:01","slug":"ferrari-hints-massa-to-extend-contract-into-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-hints-massa-to-extend-contract-into-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari hints Massa to extend contract into 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ferrari looks set to extend its contract with the Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Team newcomer Fernando Alonso has a long term agreement, but 28-year-old Massa&#8217;s deal expires at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports that the end of Massa&#8217;s deal ties in with Robert Kubica&#8217;s solely single-year Renault contract.<\/p>\n<p>But team principal Stefano Domenicali suggested to Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild magazine that Ferrari is happy with its existing lineup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to build with Felipe into the future,&#8221; said the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Massa joined Ferrari as Michael Schumacher&#8217;s teammate in 2006, going on to challenge Lewis Hamilton for the 2008 title before last year almost dying in an horrific Budapest qualifying crash.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not yet winning a race this year, he is leading the drivers&#8217; world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Domenicali added: &#8220;We have the feeling that he has developed in recent years into a driver as good as any other in the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said Ferrari has already begun work on its 2011 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year the double diffusers are prohibited.\u00a0 The new car is an entirely new project,&#8221; said Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari looks set to extend its contract with the Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.<\/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":[5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247"}],"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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}