.:: Official F1 2010 Silly Season Thread::.

With us only now being 3 races into the 19 races of this 2010 Season, we've already had one silly story rumour, now, normally this doesn't kick off till the European season, but it seems we have it early this year.

It would be quite amazing to see how many different stories we hear as the year goes on, Anyone finds anything outragous for this season regarding, transfers or teams etc, We'd love to hear it in this thread.

Let the 2010 Silly Season BEGIN!!

I'll start with one of the first I've found this year

Felipe Massa is very close to renewing his contract with Ferrari for a further three seasons despite rumours the Italian team were chasing Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel.BBC

De la Rosa rumours continue to run

Pedro de la Rosa's days at Sauber - and in F1 - are reportedly numbered with claims that Sauber are lining up two possible replacements for the Spaniard.

De la Rosa last completed a full season in F1 back in 2002 before switching to a test driver role with McLaren, competing as a substitute in nine grands prix for the Woking team.

It therefore came as somewhat of a surprise when Sauber announced that they had signed the 39-year-old as Kamui Kobayashi's team-mate for this year's Championship.

However, de la Rosa has failed to live up to the team's expectations, although it must be noted that Sauber have conceded that a large part of the problem is their C29.

But despite their issues with the car, reports claim that the team is considering replacing de la Rosa and have already lined up two possible substitutes.

Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado, who has previously denied that he has spoken with Sauber, is one candidate while GP2 racer Luca Filippi is the other.

SOURCE: Planet-f1.com