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By Andrew Benson
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 Alonso's move to Ferrari has been widely expected within F1
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Ferrari are poised to announce that double world champion Fernando Alonso will join the team for 2010.
The Spaniard, 28, has signed a two-year contract with options to extend and will earn a salary in the region of 19-25 million euros (£17.3m-£22.8m).
The deal, which has been widely expected in Formula 1 for some time, is likely to be made public this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.
He will partner Felipe Massa, with Kimi Raikkonen tipped to move to McLaren.
The Finn had a contract with Ferrari until the end of 2010, but the team have been in negotiations to move him to another team.
As part of the cascade of driver moves that will follow Alonso's switch, Pole Robert Kubica is tipped to fill the vacancy left by Alonso at Renault.
The most successful active driver in F1, Alonso signed his Ferrari contract as long ago as July 2008, according to sources close to the team.
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The Italian team had been planning to announce it at the end of the season, but it has become such common knowledge that they have decided to bring that forward.
His contract runs to the end of 2011, but there are options for a further three years, which could mean he will drive for Ferrari until the end of 2014, when he will be 33.
A Ferrari spokesman said: "At this moment, there is nothing we can say. In the last few weeks, something has changed. We are talking to the drivers and when it is the proper time we will make an announcement."
The move brings to an end his relationship with the Renault team, for whom he has driven in all but two of his eight years in F1.
He was cleared of any involvement in the recent race-fixing scandal, in which the team were found to have asked his team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr to crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to aid Alonso's chances of victory.
Team boss Flavio Briatore and engineering director Pat Symonds left the team in the wake of Renault's decision not to contest the charges.
But an investigation by governing body the FIA found no evidence that Alonso, who did go on to win the race, knew of the conspiracy.
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Alonso made his debut for Minardi in 2001, moved to Renault as their test driver in 2002 and was promoted to their race team in 2003.
He became the youngest race-winner in F1 history when he won the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix, and its youngest world champion when he won his first drivers' title in 2005.
He has since lost those two records to Sebastian Vettel, who broke the win mark in Italy in 2008, and Lewis Hamilton when he became world champion last year.
He went on to win a second consecutive championship in 2006, beating Ferrari's Michael Schumacher in a straight fight, before moving to McLaren as Lewis Hamilton's team-mate in 2007.
Alonso signed a three-year contract with McLaren, but he left after one season following a tempestuous relationship with the team.
He rejoined Renault for 2008, winning in Singapore and, less controversially, the following race in Japan, but the team have been uncompetitive this season.
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