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If Ferrari is looking for a new 2nd driver to support Alonso (like Kimi), then they could be making plans to move Felipe Massa to the LMP1 project to help test in 2014.
Ferrari would probably use Felipe Massa, Marc Gené (2009 LM winner), Giancarlo Fisichella and someone else for the full-season effort in 2015.
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Is Gene still a Ferrari man or has he been fully cut loose and/or absorbed into the Audi family?
If this program is indeed real (which I don't believe), then Kobayashi, Fisi and Rigon would probably become part of the project, and Massa if he leaves F1. Luca Filippi said something not too long ago about working with Ferrari on something, so maybe him too.
But even though Ferrari have a horde of quality drivers in house, there's not really many with LMP1, or even LMP2, experience amongst them. Pierre Kaffer and Nic Minassian (is he now a Ferrari driver?)? I would imagine that Ferrari would need to find some proper LMP1-experienced drivers that are available (Chandhok for example or Heidfeld if Porsche don't snap him up) or poach from Audi/Toyota.