Fernando Alonso will remain with the Ferrari outfit until at least 2016 after the two sides agreed to extend his contract.
“It is a great pleasure to have renewed our agreement with a driver who has always demonstrated a winning mentality even in the most difficult circumstances,” said Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo.
“Fernando has all the required qualities, both technically and personally to play a leading role in the history of Ferrari and I hope he will be enriching it with further wins very soon.”
Alonso says he is happy to extend his original contract, which was set to expire in 2012, with a team which now feels like ‘family’.
“I am very happy to have reached this agreement. I immediately felt comfortable within Ferrari and now it feels to me like a second family.
“I have the utmost faith in the men and women who work in Maranello and in those who lead them: it is therefore natural for me to decide to extend my relationship in the long term like this, with a team at which I will no doubt end my Formula 1 career one day.”
