Ferrari has officially confirmed that Fernando Alonso will replace Kimi Raikkonen in its lineup from 2010, having completed a three-year deal.
The two-time World Champion’s move from Renault has been anticipated for many months, and will see him paired with Felipe Massa in the Italian squad’s race team.
“We are very proud to welcome to our team another winning driver…Â Details
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George Gillett, whose family is the majority owner of Richard Petty Motorsports, has entered into a “commercial collaboration” agreement with F6, a leading Saudi Arabia-based sports management firm founded and led by Saudi Arabian Prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdullah Al Saud.
According to a news release from F6, the agreement includes the Liverpool soccer team and is designed to explore business opportunities in soccer, stock-car racing and interactive media in Saudi Arabia. The framework for a partnership in NASCAR also has been established to consider the development of …Â Details
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Trade Monaco for Darlington? Some people assumed Juan Pablo Montoya had a few screws loose — and not in his race car.Â
There were puzzled expressions all around — except, notably, on the faces of Montoya and car owner Chip Ganassi — when Ganassi announced in the middle of the 2006 season that Montoya would drive for his NASCAR team beginning with the 2007 Sprint Cup schedule.
Yes, Ganassi assured everyone, this was the same Juan Pablo Montoya who had blitzed the racing capitals of Europe and other continents as one of Formula One’s lightning rods. He won races on some of world’s most famous F1 courses and in front of kings and queens and sheiks, and now he was going to race “taxicabs” at such exotic locales as Talladega and Martinsville? … Details
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Sebastien Loeb will drive for GP2 team DPR in the official test which takes place at Jerez on October 6-8.
The five-time World Rally Champion has been linked with a switch to Formula 1 throughout this season. He tested for Red Bull at Barcelona last winter and has been linked to a race seat at Toro Rosso for this season’s finale in Abu Dhabi. He admitted last month that he would be interested in … Details
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