{"id":4453,"date":"2010-04-15T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:39:35","slug":"kubica-and-massa-play-down-2011-ferrari-seat-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kubica-and-massa-play-down-2011-ferrari-seat-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubica and Massa play down 2011 Ferrari seat rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Robert Kubica and Felipe Massa on Thursday played down the rumours about their respective futures.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Brazilian Massa&#8217;s Ferrari contract set to expire, it is suggested that Kubica, 25, could be drafted in from Renault to be his friend Fernando Alonso&#8217;s teammate in 2011 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The speculation has gained even more pace given the Pole&#8217;s impressive start to this season, but he said in China: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think for any seconds or any minutes about next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were rumours about Ferrari last year, and now there are rumours again this year.\u00a0 So far, the rumours have only been rumours,&#8221; added Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>Some sections of the media have touted the possibility of a new three-year contract for 28-year-old Massa, who has been with Ferrari since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>But Italian sources have suggested the Kubica rumours might be true, and when asked about his talks with Ferrari Massa said on Thursday: &#8220;I think there&#8217;s really no rush for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even before my accident last year, some talks started to renew the contract, and those talks have started again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really not in a rush to do that.\u00a0 Improving race by race and fighting for the championship is more on my mind,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica and Felipe Massa on Thursday played down the rumours about their respective futures.<\/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":[5262,130,93,5300,5261,5340,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453"}],"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=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}