Alex Zanardi will not run in 2010

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Dear Friends,

a few days later than what I told you, here I am writing to you some news which are not exactly positive.

I am sorry to tell you that my relation with BMW has definitively interrupted and every chance to take part in any championship with a car of the Bavarian brand went with it.

What a shame. My relation with the German manufacturer seemed to be indissoluble, nevertheless, this is what happened in a period with the economic downturn shaking daily many of the certainties that apparently regulated the world economy and it is certainly not the worst thing ever when compared to the situation of all those people that have really been knocked out by this crisis.

Despite being extremely sorry for having to break up an association that awarded both sides with great satisfactions, I understand that these things happen. Still, during life it might also happen that when you lower your eyes to look for something you lost you end up finding something else worth collecting.

We will see if this is going to be the case, even if I think that now it is really late to find shortly a valid agonistic alternative, I surely do not intend to hang up my racing helmet and I am hopeful that very nice cars will still be present in a more or less near future of mine.

I am sincerely thankful to BMW for the path we covered together and I wish them all the best in their sportive programmes.

Stay tuned...

-source: alex zanardi