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Fernando Alonso won the race in Bahrain at his debut for Ferrari after he imposed in front of team-mate, Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton.
After a disappointing 2009 season, Ferrari and McLaren came back in force this year and are announced as World Title main contestants.
Starting on the 3rd position in the grid, Fernando Alonso made his debut at Scuderia Ferrari in the style of great champion and brought the first victory for the Prancing Horse, after he overtook his team-mate Felipe Massa at start and took advantage of the Sebastian Vettel’s engine problems and crossed the finish line first.

Massa and Hamilton have completed first podium of the season, the last one of them achieving this performance and after he overtook Nico Rosberg after the pit stop in the first part of the race. The great disappointment of the race was Vettel, who dominated the first two thirds of the race, but, in the
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Ferrari believes that Fernando Alonso will win in front of Michael Schumacher for the third time, in the race for the 2010 Formula 1 world title.
Michael Schumacher will return to Formula 1 in the 2010 season, but will race for Mercedes GP after he won five consecutive titles with Ferrari in 2000-2004.
In the last two years which had preceded German’s retirement, he was defeated by Fernando Alonso, the current pilot of the Ferrari. Precisely for this reason, Scuderia believes it has the perfect weapon to beat Schumacher in the race for the F1 world title in 2010.
“Let’s not forget Fernando is the only driver on the track who in his career has beaten Michael (to the world championship). Fernando has everything to beat him. Of course, it is right not to forget that what has happened has left its mark. Now we have to turn the page. We have to show Michael that this is
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Fernando Alonso affirms that he is passing the best period of his career and that hopes to win a lot of Formula One titles for Ferrari starting 2010.
After the two world titles won with Renault in 2005 and 2006, Alonso had three less efficacious seasons with McLaren (2007) and, again, with the French team that brought the Spanish driver fame.
Anyway, Fernando decided to make a step towards the most famous team in the Formula 1 world, and signed a contract and will drive for Ferrari F1 for at least three years. Alonso thinks that the move came at the time he is at the top of his driving career.
“I’m really looking forward to the start of next year. I’m joining the best team in the world, Ferrari, and I’m arriving at the best moment of my career. Right now I feel like I’ve never felt before. I think I’m at my
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Scuderia Ferrari forecasts a 2010 Formula 1 season dominated by their team, the Italians seeing in Fernando Alonso the driver that can be as good as Michael Schumacher. “Ferrari needs someone for the team similar to Schumi, ” said Stefano Domenicali, the Italian’s boss, to Auto Bild. “[Raikkonen is] very fast, but also very closed. In a car that is capable of winning, he was and is perfect – but if the car needs to be developed and the team fired up, Alonso is better,” Stefano Domenicali, the F1 team chief also added.
In another train of thoughts, the Scuderia officials hope that the 2007 Alonso-Hamilton episode (the two had a personal war, and the Formula 1 world title was then concurred by Kimi Raikkonen) will repeat inside the McLaren F1 Team, but to be mentioned that Alonso’s place in the equation will be taken by Button, the en-titre world champion.

McLaren Mercedes, Ferarri’s big rival, signed Jenson
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The “love-story” between Ferrari F1 and Michael Schumacher seems to have gotten to a dead end, the with German being sacked from his job as a consultant.
Even after he retired in 2006, Schumacher had an important role in the evolution of the F1 Team, redounding as a consultant for developing of the monoposts and as a council of his younger fellow drivers. According to “AS,” his role in the destiny of the Scuderia for the upcoming seasons have been canceled, the German’s involvement in the F1 Team’s strategy being almost zero in the coming years. Although it seems that there was a break between the two sides, this fact discloses that Schumacher have been given new tasks and that he was not fired.

To be more precisely, Schumy will only handle the street cars development, his motorsport attributions being canceled. Officially, this change was “caused” by Ferrari 458 Italia, a model where Michael brought his
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