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Kimi
Raikkonen has signed an "outline agreement" to kick off
a second tenure with the McLaren team beginning next season, the Mirror
newspaper reported on Sunday.
The
British newspaper said the 29-year-old Finn, who raced with the
Woking based outfit between 2002 and 2006, must first reach an
agreement with Ferrari, with whom he is under contract for one
more season.
The
Mirror cited "paddock sources" in claiming that
Raikkonen is prepared to vacate his contracted Ferrari seat in
2010, but only if the famous Italian outfit pays his salary. The
newspaper estimated Raikkonen's 2010 Ferrari contract at nearly US
$49m.
The
report also said the news ties in with Nico Rosberg's link with
Brawn and the Brackley team's burgeoning relationship with
Mercedes-Benz.
The
German manufacturer Mercedes was said to be pushing for Rosberg to
replace Heikki Kovalainen at McLaren, but may now have resolved to
push the German driver to Brawn and increase its involvement with
the Ross Brawn-led outfit.
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