{"id":16866,"date":"2012-10-17T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16866"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:01:03","slug":"ferrari-confirms-massa-staying-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-confirms-massa-staying-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari confirms Massa staying in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari announced late on Tuesday that Felipe Massa is staying with the team in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Felipe-Massa.jpg\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Although the one-year contract ties in with rumours Sebastian Vettel could replace him in 2014, the news ends a long period of speculation about the 31-year-old Brazilian&#8217;s immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank president (Luca di) Montezemolo and Stefano Domenicali, who had faith in me and who have always supported me, even at the most difficult moments,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>2013 will be Massa&#8217;s eighth consecutive season with the famous Maranello based team, having moved from Sauber at the end of 2005 to pair with Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso sounded happy about Tuesday&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so happy to continue another year with Felipe Massa as a teammate,&#8221; the Spaniard wrote on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m sure we are the best team!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari announced late on Tuesday that Felipe Massa is staying with the team in 2013. Although the one-year contract ties in with rumours Sebastian Vettel could replace him in 2014, the news ends a long period of speculation about the 31-year-old Brazilian&#8217;s immediate future. &#8220;I want to thank president (Luca di) Montezemolo and Stefano Domenicali, &#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":[5262,130,149,93,5340,148,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866"}],"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=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16867,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions\/16867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}