{"id":6380,"date":"2010-06-16T06:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2010-06-16T06:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:59:04","slug":"new-massa-contract-has-barrichello-clause-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-massa-contract-has-barrichello-clause-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Massa contract has &#8216;Barrichello clause&#8217; &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest rumour, Felipe Massa may have agreed a &#8216;Barrichello-clause&#8217; in the pages of his new Ferrari contract.<\/p>\n<p>As the 29-year-old arrived in Turkey mid last week, the Italian team said Massa will keep racing a Ferrari in 2011 and 2012, contrary to speculation that Mark Webber or Robert Kubica might replace him.<\/p>\n<p>But so far in 2010, Massa has struggled to match the pace of his new Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso, including in Turkey, where he was outqualified before driving a messy race and crossing the line a lap down.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell reports rumours that one of the conditions of Massa&#8217;s contract renewal was that he agree to be the number two driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Barrichello clause&#8217; is a reference to Michael Schumacher&#8217;s former Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello, who famously raced to support the championship charges of the team&#8217;s favoured driver.<\/p>\n<p>Massa is quoted as responding to the rumours: &#8220;Rubbish&#8221;, while Alonso refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest rumour, Felipe Massa may have agreed a &#8216;Barrichello-clause&#8217; in the pages of his new Ferrari contract. As the 29-year-old arrived in Turkey mid last week, the Italian team said Massa will keep racing a Ferrari in 2011 and 2012, contrary to speculation that Mark Webber or Robert Kubica might replace him. &#8230;<\/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":[1813,5262,130,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380"}],"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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}