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Alonso vows: Ferrari will be my last team in F1
Topic Started: Jan 14 2010, 09:31 PM (495 Views)
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http://www.crash.net/f1/News/155997/1/alon...team_in_f1.html

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Fernando Alonso has confessed that having finally arrived at Ferrari almost a decade on from his F1 debut, he has no plans to ever leave again – insisting that he intends to remain at the Scuderia until the day he hangs up his grand prix helmet.

Alonso agreed a three-year deal with the legendary Prancing Horse to replace fellow former F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen from 2010 onwards, and the Spaniard has been getting to know his new team-mate Felipe Massa and new colleagues at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in the Italian Dolomites this week. Clad in scarlet overalls for the first time, the Oviedo native revealed that so far, his move has been everything he could have wished for and then some.

Indeed, he feels so much at home and already part of the Ferrari 'family', he admitted, that he feels confident enough to never want to race for another team for the remainder of his career in the top flight.

“I'm having a fantastic time here with skiing and work,” he enthused, “but especially benefitting from this extraordinary opportunity to get to know my team-mates Felipe Massa and [test driver] Giancarlo Fisichella better. I immediately had a good feeling with every part of the team, and everybody has been extremely available for me, trying to satisfy my needs and my proposals as good as possible.

“I was really impressed by the passion you can feel in Maranello, everywhere in the company and in the city. The legendary history of the Prancing Horse can be seen in everything. I think Ferrari is much more than just a Formula 1 team. For me like for anybody it's a dream come true.

“I've felt comfortable from my first day. The team has welcomed me like a family. Ferrari, I think, is something unique in Formula 1. All of you have dreamed of driving Ferrari street cars, and I'm the same. Driving for Ferrari was my dream as a child, and now it has come true.

“It's unbelievable to be part of this team – there's a family feeling and there's a passion for racing in the factory that you don't find anywhere else. The way of working really hit me; I was used to people sending an e-mail to someone ten metres away. What I do is work 110 per cent with the team, so if the team is not working 110 per cent, it's not right.

“This will be 100 per cent my last team. I want to finish my career with a good taste in the mouth. I'm arriving here much better-prepared than when I arrived at Renault. I'm ready for this huge challenge – Ferrari is known the world over, and we have to win.”

Winning, of course, will first mean getting the better of Massa, who might now be in the final stages of recovery from his life-threatening Hungaroring qualifying accident last summer, but who has been a part of the furniture at Maranello since his first full campaign there in 2006.


All nice PR, after MS saying it and not doing it and Kimi saying it and most likely returning when the price is right, as much as I think that sounds nice it really means less than it would normal have done
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Likewise, isn't Mac supposedly the only team Lewis Hamilton will drive for (until the next one). Never say never. I bet this time last year MS would never have thought he'd be driving for Mercedes!
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Maybe he meant least as in most recent....
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At this stage in Alonso's career and with a 3 year min contract ahead it is natural to say he 'believes' this will be his last team, if he stays as long as Schumacher he will be as old as Schumacher was when he retired (for the first time)

Schumacher's comeback shows as Norbert says never say never, although if Schumacher had not stopped racing end of 2006 and stayed on with Ferrari , I think Ferrari would have been his last team and he would be retired now with no desire to comeback.
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Cue an awkward U-turn in 12 months' time when Massa has beaten him <icecream>
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Didn't Kimi say that as well
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So far he's kept to his word.
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<roflmao>
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Rob,Jan 15 2010
07:33 PM
So far he's kept to his word.

Yeah at least Kimi is not a lying weasel or political bs'er as so many other drivers in F1. <thumbsup>
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What if the team is not competitive? <peek>
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then he will not be WDC... simple.
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AndronicusRhodos,Jan 16 2010
09:46 AM
What if the team is not competitive?  <peek>

Then he won't be either. But that's true of any F1 driver.

And welcome to the board.
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Rob,Jan 16 2010
11:07 PM
And welcome to the board...

<doh> I hadn't noticed that...

Welcome AR... start as you mean to go on
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RJHSaints,Jan 15 2010
02:19 PM
Cue an awkward U-turn in 12 months' time when Massa has beaten him <icecream>

Where will he go? It's his last team because he's burned his bridges at Mclaren and Renault are crapsville.
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Red Bull, to take Webber's seat? :P
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