Ms. MAYNARD: The eventual cost savings comes at the end of the contract, when they are able to close these plants permanently and take these workers off their payrolls.

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Another option could be for him to take a year off and wait for a vacancy at Ferrari in 2011, when Felipe Massa's contract runs out.

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