Despite the rumours swirling about
Kimi Raikkonen's future at Maranello, and the possibility that
Fernando Alonso is waiting in the wings to don a set of scarlet overalls next season,
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo insists that he expects little change in the team's 2009 line-up.
Raikkonen's place in the team has come under scrutiny after a series of lacklustre performances that have dropped him 13 points off the championship lead with six rounds remaining in 2008. The Finn is keeping quiet on speculation that he may be considering retirement at the end of the season, despite suggestions that if he fails to win the title, or is asked to play second fiddle to team-mate
Felipe Massa during the run-in to Interlagos, he may walk away after the Brazilian finale.
Ironically, it was Massa's position in the team that was called into question after he failed to score in either of the first two rounds - in Australia and Malaysia - but the Brazilian has since established himself as the team's best-placed title candidate, dominating the past two races in Hungary and Spain to move into second spot overall, behind
McLaren's
Lewis Hamilton.
Alonso, meanwhile, was the talk of the paddock at the Monaco Grand Prix, when whispers suggested that he had inked an advance deal to join the Scuderia in 2010. Since then, however, the Spaniard has refused to talk about his plans for
next season, either confirming that he will remain with
Renault or move onto another team - with
Honda currently leading the rumours - before taking up his place at Ferrari as many assume he will.
Montezemolo has not been the double world champion's biggest fan, suggesting in the wake of the Monaco rumours that Alonso was too disruptive an influence to ever sit well at Maranello, and used this week's group test at Monza to reiterate that he expected little to change for 2009.
