Looks like Ferrari is serious about dominating the field next season.

In case you haven’t been watching the 2009 F1 season, to say that it hasn’t been Ferrari’s year could be an understatement.

Next season, it looks like Ferrari intends to make a huge bid as far as the 2010 title is concerned because they just signed former double world champion Fernando Alonso to a three-year deal.

That’s right, Fernando Alonso, for the second time in his career, is leaving Renault to sign with another team, this time with Ferrari. Just a few years ago, he left Renault to sign with McLaren. The honeymoon between him and McLaren ended when a young Lewis Hamilton entered the picture. Luckily, Renault was there to take Alonso back, only for him to leave the team again to sign with Ferrari.

Alonso signing with Ferrari means he’ll be teammates with his rival Felipe Massa. That also means Kimi Raikkonen is leaving the team but I reckon with Alonso’s skill set, the Italians won’t miss the Finn one bit.

”We are very proud to welcome to our team another winning driver, who has demonstrated his amazing talent by winning two world championships in his career to date,” said Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali.

”Of course, we wish to thank Kimi for everything he has done during his time with Ferrari.”

”In his first year with us he managed to win the…”

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In case you didn’t know, Jenson Button secured the world title in Brazil.

And although he didn’t win the Brazilian Grand Prix, Jenson Button scored just enough points to secure the world championship this 2009 F1 season.

However, there are rumors that claim Brawn GP could lose the newly crowned champion to McLaren. Yes, you read it, McLaren is once again making some moves to land them a world champion. They did the same thing to Renault’s Fernando Alonso a few years ago and just recently, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. Why not go for another one and go after Brawn GP’s 2009 champion Jenson Button?

With Brawn GP not as rich as the big boys of Formula One like Ferrari, McLaren and Renault, they are in danger of losing Button if those richer teams start waiving more money in front of the British sensation. Team owner Ross Brawn knows it too, saying that it’s up to Button now.

Apparently, Jenson Button wants to earn the £8 million a year he was earning before taking a £5 million pay cut when former team owners, Honda, pulled out last December. Brawn knows money is the striking point in contract negotiations.

”Jenson has a contract with us. But that contract is not the salary of a World Champion, not the salary of a team that is in a much stronger position than it was 10 months ago,” Ross Brawn said. ”We’re working with Jenson to find a balance between what we can afford and what he feels is fair for his status and the contribution he can make in the future.”

The problem is, they don’t have anything to lure Button back…

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You read it, the fiery Finn is coming back to McLaren, looking to save the team from the debacle they’ve been having this year.

Looks like McLaren – Mercedes is already making some moves to rectify the pathetic campaign they’ve been having this 2009 F1 season. In case you haven’t been paying attention, McLaren’s defending champion, Lewis Hamilton, has only won a couple of races this season and the team in general hasn’t been faring well too, dropping to fourth in the constructors championship standings.

With Lewis Hamilton struggling this year, McLaren has to come up with an insurance policy for next year’s run and with the team signing a former world champion like Kimi Raikkonen, they may have found exactly that.

Kimi Raikkonen raced for McLaren a few years ago so there won’t be any adjustments as far as the Finn is concerned. Back in 2007, Kimi Raikkonen left McLaren for Ferrari in a £25 million a year deal that made him the highest paid driver on the grid.

He rewarded them by winning the world championship in his debut campaign but his position came under threat when Fernando Alonso, Renault’s double world champion, was rumored last year to join Ferrari and replace him.

The major problem has been Raikkonen’s $50 million (£31 million) a year contract with…

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Since he’s Brazilian, surely you didn’t expect him to miss this year’s race in his home country right?

You read it, the 2009 F1 season continues this week in Brazil where Felipe Massa will make his return after severely injuring his eye back in the horrific freak accident in Hungary. Yes, he’s back. But he won’t be where you’d normally expect him to be.

You see, Felipe Massa will indeed be back in the 2009 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix but he won’t be racing for Ferrari. Instead, he’ll be there as a special guest to wave the checkered flag in what should be an emotional homecoming for Brazil’s hometown hero.

Felipe Massa, who has not ruled out the prospect of driving in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 1, will return to his home country Brazil for the penultimate round on the calendar.

Massa will become the third celebrity to wave the checkered flag at Interlagos in the past eight years, following in the footsteps of Pele and model Gisele Bundchen. Hopefully, Massa will at least have his eyes on the conclusion of what could be the title decider, unlike Pele, who famously failed to carry out his duty.

The world’s most famous footballer was looking the other way when…

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But who will crash his car on purpose for Alonso to take the checkered flag this time?

Ah yes, conspiracies and controversies have not been new to the 2009 F1 season. And in case you didn’t know, the entire Renault F1 team is in the middle of the latest one coming to this weekend’s Singapore GP.

Yup, the 2009 F1 Singapore Grand Prix is this weekend and Fernando Alonso will try to defend the title he earned last year. After all, the Singapore GP is the ONLY race in the F1 racing calendar held at nighttime and since the inaugural race last season, the event has become one of those races you just have to win if you’re a Formula One driver.

However, there seems to be a problem about the way Fernando Alonso won the race in Singapore last year. It turns out that team Renault ordered Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash his car on purpose to give Alonso an unfair advantage.

You see, Nelson Piquet Jr. crashing his Renault last year meant that Alonso had taken his first pit stop before the safety car was deployed. Thanks to Flavio Briatore’s ingenuity, the plan worked perfectly and Alonso ended up with the win on Singapore’s inaugural night race.

Fernando Alonso, as of this writing, still claims he was on the dark about the devious plan to give him the edge through the safety car. As far as he’s concerned, he doesn’t know squat about the incident.

Alonso is confident that he’ll be able to win again in Singapore, with or without…

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You read it, and since they were friends before the race fixing scandal in Singapore broke out, you can bet your ass they ain’t friends no more.

It turns out that Bernie Ecclestone’s friendship with Flavio Briatore has suffered in the wake of the race-fixing scandal that transpired last year in Singapore. This is definitely something any F1 team can’t have coming to the 2009 F1 Singapore Grand Prix this Sunday but as far as Renault is concerned, they can’t do a damn thing about it.

In case you didn’t know, Flavio Briatore was handed a lifetime ban from all FIA – sanctioned events this 2009 F1 season for his role in the conspiracy which resulted to Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashing his car to virtually hand Fernando Alonso the win in Singapore last year.

And while Bernie Ecclestone felt the lifetime ban on Briatore was a tad overkill, he was still a part of the 26-man World Motor Sport Council that slapped the disgruntled Renault boss with the punishment.

Flavio Briatore felt that Ecclestone should’ve been more lenient considering that they were buddies. Unfortunately, Ecclestone felt he just couldn’t defend Briatore.

”He’s not talking to me, I don’t know. He thinks I should have defended him, which I couldn’t,” Bernie Ecclestone said.

”If you look at it sensibly, the people at the top…”

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Round 14 of the 2009 F1 season resumes in Singapore where the lights will be out and the excitement will be at a fever pitch.

The 2009 F1 Singapore Grand Prix is the only night race you’ll get to see this season. It is staged on an exciting 5.067-kilometre (3.148-mile) street track in the heart of the colorful and cosmopolitan city.

Jenson Button arrives at the city’s picturesque Marina Bay with a reduced 14-point lead over teammate and title rival Rubens Barrichello, while Sebastian Vettel, who is 26 points adrift of Button, will be hoping that the Brawn drivers slip up.

McLaren-Mercedes will introduce their last major upgrade package of the year and the circuit should suit the MP4-24 as Lewis Hamilton targets his second win of the season.

The Singapore Grand Prix has become one of the most anticipated races of the F1 calendar and this weekend, the bright lights of the city’s financial center in the background will definitely give the race a unique atmosphere.

”It’s a very physical circuit, more than I expected, actually,” says 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton. ”You need to put a lot of work into the car to get a good lap, I’d say it requires double the energy of Monaco over a single lap. One lap around here is like two laps of Monaco!”

”The visibility is great and you don’t really feel…”

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Oh yes, he’s back people.

After a disastrous spell in the 2009 F1 season, it definitely looks like defending F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is officially back this season after finishing on the podium in the last two races.

You read it, Lewis Hamilton finished a strong second place last weekend in Belgium after scoring his first win of the season in Hungary. And while he probably won’t catch the front runners for this year’s world title, at least he can finish strong to end what has been a tumultuous 2009 campaign.

”Before the recent upgrades, we’d have been hopeful of getting into the top 10,” remarked Hamilton. ”But now we’re regularly hoping for a win or to finish second, and that’s a big difference and very encouraging.”

”We’re definitely strong again, but we’re not fastest. With KERS, we are there or thereabouts, but we still lack two or three tenths (of a second) to the Brawns. Hopefully we can make further changes to our aerodynamic package, so Spa will be an interesting test for us.”

And while he may be riding high with momentum coming to this weekend’s 2009 F1 Belgium Grand Prix, he has already played down expectations ahead of this Sunday’s race.

”I don’t think we’ll be as competitive as we’ve been…”

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In case you haven’t noticed, teams are starting to catch up to the once unbeatable mean and green machine.

After a red hot start to the 2009 F1 season that saw Brawn GP on the podium for eight straight races, their last two outings have been a little different with Jenson Button scoring a mere six championship points and Rubens Barrichello dropping three before his DNF in Hungary.

For what it’s worth, Jenson Button still remains on top of the leaderboard as far as the race for the drivers’ title is concerned with Brawn GP still leading the race for the constructors’ title.

But since other teams are starting to close in on them, specifically Red Bull, these guys definitely have something to be worried about. Red Bull’s Mark Webber is now only 18.5 points behind Button while the team in general is only 15.5 points adrift of Brawn GP.

Is Brawn starting to lose its edge or has the competition started to get more competitive? As far as team boss Ross Brawn is concerned, he’s putting the blame on the team’s recent modifications to the BGP001 while also acknowledging that YES, the competition has become a little bit stronger.

”It’s true that the opposition has got a lot stronger, but…”

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You can just imagine how high will the TV ratings be once Patrick makes the move.

In case you didn’t know, there are some teams looking to make their debut in Formula One once the 2009 F1 season is over. One of which is the new USF1 team looking to make a splash next season.

Of course, since USF1 is American owned, it’s understandable for those guys to go look for American drivers to race for them. And ever since the team made their intentions to compete in Formula One public, it sparked some speculation that they’ll sign the popular and sexy Indy race car driver Danica Patrick as one of their two pilots.

With Patrick’s contract with Andretti Green Racing expiring at the end of the year, the timing is perfect for her to make the move. The question is, will she make one?

Unfortunately for F1 fans looking forward for this one, Danica Patrick already poured cold water over the ”very hot” rumors like a pissed little bitch, leaving us hanging, curled up in a corner with a pulsating crotch.

”I’d say it’s probably not F1,” Danica Patrick said on which series she may race in next season.

”I’ve had opportunities to take it a step further with Formula 1, and I don’t want to lead anyone down a path. It’s not in my heart to go there. I’ve explored Europe before.”

”I particularly like to be here and I like my family…

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