Zoom Alonso linked to Ferrari breakaway

Fernando Alonso and Luca di Montezemolo are apparently planning to meet at the Le Mans circuit this week, where practice for the famous 24 hour sports car race began on Wednesday.

According to the wildest speculation, Ferrari President Montezemolo, to officially start the fabled endurance event on Saturday afternoon, would field a three-car team featuring the Spanish double world champion, as well as contracted 2010 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa, in a breakaway championship.

1992 Formula One world champion Nigel Mansell has admitted that he could compete at Le Mans next season. Watching over son Leo who is racing a Team Modena Ferrari this weekend in the 24 hour race, Mansell admitted: "We will seriously think about it for next year in fact," the ACO report the former champion as saying.

The Swiss senate has voted against an attempt to lift the country's more than 50-year ban on motorsport, including Formula One. The sport was banned in Switzerland after the Le Mans disaster of 1955.

Sir Jackie Stewart turns 70 on Thursday, but the triple world champion insists he is not about to retire. The Scot's ongoing connection to Formula One is as the Royal Bank of Scotland's sponsor ambassador, and he will be back in that role at the British Grand Prix next weekend. "I've noticed what happens to a lot of other people when they do (retire) that the light goes out of their life and they suddenly feel old," he told Scotland's Herald newspaper.

Source: GMM
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