{"id":14177,"date":"2011-11-09T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2011-11-09T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:00:56","slug":"massa-happy-to-have-ferraris-support-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-happy-to-have-ferraris-support-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa happy to have Ferrari&#8217;s support for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa has admitted he is glad his bosses re-confirmed his place at Ferrari for 2012 following recent media speculation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2010\/f1-10-drivers\/Felipe-Massa.jpg\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that, despite Brazilian Massa having a firm contract for next season, Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg was being considered as a potential new teammate for Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>Massa, 30, was not at Ferrari&#8217;s Finale Mondiali event last weekend, where his bosses Stefano Domenicali and Luca di Montezemolo confirmed he will still be racing a red car next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I am aware of what our president Montezemolo and Domenicali said about me over there, making it clear once again that I am definitely driving for the Scuderia next season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From my point of view, it is important that I have the full support of the team behind me, which is always very positive,&#8221; added Massa.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning from his near-fatal crash in 2009, Massa has had a hard time alongside the highly competitive Alonso, who is now seen as arguably just as close to Ferrari as Michael Schumacher was half a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that next year will be a very important one for the whole team, given that this season did not go as well as expected and it will also be a very important time for me,&#8221; Massa acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa has admitted he is glad his bosses re-confirmed his place at Ferrari for 2012 following recent media speculation. It has been reported that, despite Brazilian Massa having a firm contract for next season, Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg was being considered as a potential new teammate for Fernando Alonso. Massa, 30, was not at Ferrari&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,130,93,5340,148,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions\/14178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}