Reigning World Champion
Kimi Raikkonen has once again dismissed lingering speculation about his future on the
formula one grid.
New rumours this week suggest that former double world champion
Fernando Alonso is indeed in the running for a
Ferrari drive next year.
With Felipe Massa under
contract until 2010, some observers have surmised that - following 28-year-old
Raikkonen's recent musings about retirement - the Finn is perhaps the driver most likely to make room at Ferrari for Alonso.
But in an interview carried this week by
La Gazzetta dello Sport, reigning world champion Raikkonen dismissed the gossip in the most strident of terms.
He insists he has a contract to keep racing with the Maranello based team in 2009.
"I have not broken a contract in all my life, and I have no intention of doing so now," Raikkonen told his countryman and journalist Heikki Kulta.
"In 2009 I will be driving for Ferrari," he added emphatically.
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