{"id":17065,"date":"2012-11-14T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17065"},"modified":"2012-11-14T06:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T11:48:38","slug":"massa-reveals-he-had-talks-with-other-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-reveals-he-had-talks-with-other-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa reveals he had talks with other teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felipe Massa has confirmed he had talks with some other teams before Ferrari re-signed him for 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Felipe-Massa-car\"Earlier this year, as the Brazilian’s form slumped to a low, it was an open secret that the Maranello based team was seeking a new teammate for Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n

“There seemed to be a black cloud above me.\u00a0 Nothing was going right,” Massa was quoted this week by Italy’s Tuttosport.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, as the F2012 got better, so too did the 31-year-old’s confidence, form and results.\u00a0 He will spend an eighth consecutive season wearing red overalls in 2013.<\/p>\n

But during his “black” period, he truly feared for his career.<\/p>\n

“I was doing a job that is a dream for millions of people, but I was not happy,” said Massa, “because in many races I knew that the main culprit was me.”<\/p>\n

When asked what his plans were had Ferrari decided to pull the plug, Massa admitted there had been some talks, without “naming names”.<\/p>\n

“But what I really wanted was to continue with Ferrari,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, while some suggest Massa’s teammate Alonso is the more ‘deserving’ champion of 2012, the Brazilian thinks Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel would also be a worthy winner.<\/p>\n

“I think Fernando did an incredible job up to now, Sebastian as well, especially in the second part of the championship,” said Massa.<\/p>\n

“So I think we are not talking about one guy who has many victories and the other one not.\u00a0 I think we are talking about two drivers, one of which will win and who we will say deserved it.”<\/p>\n

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Felipe Massa has confirmed he had talks with some other teams before Ferrari re-signed him for 2013. Earlier this year, as the Brazilian’s form slumped to a low, it was an open secret that the Maranello based team was seeking a new teammate for Fernando Alonso. “There seemed to be a black cloud above me.\u00a0 …<\/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":[3],"tags":[5262,130,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065"}],"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=17065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17066,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065\/revisions\/17066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}