{"id":4435,"date":"2010-04-15T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2010-04-15T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:50:35","slug":"montezemolo-not-willing-to-discuss-massas-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-not-willing-to-discuss-massas-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo not willing to discuss Massa&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Luca di Montezemolo would not be drawn when asked about speculation that 2010 could be Felipe Massa&#8217;s last season at Ferrari.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian and German reports recently said the 28-year-old, whose contract expires this year, was set to extend the deal for a further three years until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Italian media sources said rumours linking Renault&#8217;s Robert Kubica with the race seat, which has been occupied by Brazilian Massa since 2006, should not yet be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not start with talking about contracts,&#8221; Ferrari president Montezemolo said at a presentation of the Italian marque&#8217;s new 599 GTO, according to Italian media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This world championship has just started,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy with Felipe, from his total recovery from the incident of last year to now leading the championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I am very happy with Alonso, on the track, off the track, with his determination, optimism and high concentration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very, very happy with both of them, and I hope to see on Sunday a Ferrari that is highly competitive, although there will be a close fight,&#8221; said the 62-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo would not be drawn when asked about speculation that 2010 could be Felipe Massa&#8217;s last season at Ferrari.<\/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":[5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,148,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435"}],"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=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}