Stefano Domenicali believes Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel can be a team – Formula 1
Stefano Domenicali says that Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel could be able to coexist at Ferrari.
Vettel the current defending champion is shown his desire to be able to drive for Ferrari one day. Domenicali believes that it is not like Vettel can only be at Ferrari if Alonso is not there he says they can be team-mates and can coexist.
It is rumoured that Vettel has already signed a pre-contract agreement with the team for 2014. The German has denied any such reports.
Ferrari has been looking for a driver to replace Felipe Massa for 2013. The team has not made a statement that they are going to replace him, but considering the warnings that the president of the team Luca di Montezemolo has given Massa and his consistent
poor form means that the Brazilian will most likely be replaced.
“I think they are both intelligent guys and they could easily coexist together,” he told the official Ferrari website during a joint interview with Bernie Ecclestone.
Ecclestone believes that the two would find it as a challenge to make their team work.
“That wouldn’t be a problem,” Ecclestone said. “Both are drivers who are always looking for a new challenge and to be in the same team would be a new and big challenge. They would both think they can bear the other one, as they are sure of themselves and
Stefano would do what was required to so that they were treated equally. It would be a case of doing what I did at Brabham in 1979 with Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet. I told them, ‘guys it’s simple: whichever one of you is quickest is the team number 1.’”
Mark Webber the other Red Bull driver is another name speculated to be linked with the Ferrari team for the 2013 season. The Aussie only signs one-year contracts and has not signed a contract with the team for 2013. Recent reports have suggested that he
may as well be willing to renew his contract with the team but nothing has been confirmed yet.
2012 will see quite a few drivers be relieved off their contractual agreements and teams looking for drivers will have a good pool of drivers to pick from.
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