Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has reported that Kimi Raikkonen will move to Ferrari in 2007, inspiring Renault boss Flavio Briatore to sign Heikki Kovalainen.

The paper quoted Kovalainen, the Enstone-based team’s current test driver, as rejecting the story, but interestingly he also did not deny speculation about his impending Grand Prix debut.

”I have not signed anything,” the 24-year-old said, ”but I am sure that next year I will race. ”The announcement will take place in the right moment.”

It has also been rumoured that Raikkonen is at the top of Renault’s wish list.

It is interesting that the driver market, after months of stagnation, has now begun to move, indicating that something significant within the ’silly season’ sphere has occurred.

Clearly, Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, has its own theory about what uncorked the market’s bottle, writing that it is ‘a shame’ that Michael Schumacher’s career is ‘at an end’.

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