Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo gave no financial details when he announced the deal on Saturday.
BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Ferrari extend tobacco contract
Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari's boss, expects hybrid systems to be available on all its models within five years.
ECONOMIST: Fast cars will go even faster with electric power
"Michael will be a super assistant to Jean Todt, " Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said at Monza on Sunday.
BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Schumacher offered Ferrari role
Not everybody's down with that idea, and one of those EV detractors is the incredibly suave Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo told Italian reporters this week that Barrichello had a strong case for staying with the team.
BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Barrichello keen for new deal
But Ferrari chief Luca di Montezemolo says his position is "not binding".
"It was very simple: We took the decision because it was a strategic one, " Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni said in a telephone interview Monday.
Ecclestone denied he was in Madonna to smooth tensions with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who has been critical of the way F1 is being run.
But Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo put paid to that back in September by claiming that he lacked the experience required for F1's most successful team.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo insisted he would not swap the English 2008 world champion for Felipe Massa, who lost the title to Hamilton by a single point.
That statement had come after Max Mosley, president of F1's governing body the FIA, had reached a compromise deal with Fota chairman and Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and F1 commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who heads the Formula 1 Teams Association (Fota), wrote to Mosley last week to express concerns about the cost cap which he said could lead to a two-tier F1.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has repeated his warning in Monaco that his team would pull out of F1 unless there was an amendment to the cap regulation as it stands because of fears of it leading to a two-tier championship.
That honour fell to Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, whose chaotic announcement of a five-year sponsorship deal with Spanish bank Santander - which became a McLaren sponsor during Fernando Alonso's brief stint with the team - prompted speculation he would also confirm the double world champion's widely-anticipated move to Ferrari in 2010.
The Enzo, notes Ferrari's boss, Luca di Montezemolo, actually sold out before its official Paris preview, even though the Italian manufacturer had boosted the production run by nearly 15%.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the chairman of Ferrari, hinted in a letter to Corriere della Sera, a daily, that he might stand at the next election as head of a new party.
Chairman Luca di Montezemolo hints that it's just the start of the Apple relationship, too, as Ferrari will be "more precise" about the union in the months ahead.
应用推荐