{"id":4374,"date":"2010-04-13T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2010-04-13T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:44:00","slug":"ferrari-not-yet-ready-to-extend-massa-deal-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-not-yet-ready-to-extend-massa-deal-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari not yet ready to extend Massa deal &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Italian media sources have not fully backed reports that Felipe Massa is close to extending his contract with Ferrari for 2011 and beyond.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>German and Brazilian reports last week suggested the 28-year-old, whose current contract with the Maranello based team is set to expire, is in talks to stay put for the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But according to some well-placed Italian sources, Ferrari is not in such a hurry to finalise its 2011 driver lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when asked about the team&#8217;s 2011 lineup, a Ferrari spokesman told Italy&#8217;s Sportevai said the topic is &#8220;not currently a priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sources also insist that rumours linking Robert Kubica with a move from Renault at the end of 2010 should not yet be dismissed &#8212; at least this early in the current season.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that while Kubica apparently signed a multi-season Renault contract late last year, the 24-year-old Pole may be able to switch to Ferrari as early as 2011, depending on various factors.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian media sources have not fully backed reports that Felipe Massa is close to extending his contract with Ferrari for 2011 and beyond.<\/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":[5262,130,93,5261,5340,502],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374"}],"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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}