"I really think that Ferrari will be my last team," said two-time Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso, upon being confirmed as Kimi Raikkonen's replacement with the Ferrari team from the 2010 season onwards.
If you ply your trade in a potentially life-threatening sport, the last thing you want to do is to make an innocuous prediction that you might have a career-ending, or even fatal accident in the shortcoming future.
It has happened to Ferrari before. Remember shortly after the San Marino Grand Prix in 1982, when an angry Gilles Villeneuve vowed that he would never speak to his teammate Didier Pironi again "for the rest of his life," after the latter disobeyed team orders and stole victory from him? His words turned out to be prophetic as less than two weeks later, the French-Canadian died in a violent crash at Zolder.
Good luck and take care, Fernando.
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