{"id":17218,"date":"2012-11-27T06:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T11:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17218"},"modified":"2012-11-27T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T11:54:27","slug":"massa-cried-after-taking-punches-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-cried-after-taking-punches-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa cried after ‘taking punches’ in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felipe Massa has revealed that amid his tumultuous 2012 season, he thought about quitting.<\/p>\n

\"R12Brz-F1-12\"When the Brazilian mounted the podium in his native Brazil on Sunday, he openly cried.<\/p>\n

Following a dire start to his 2012 campaign, and indeed a fallow few seasons since his almost fatal injuries of 2009, the 31-year-old has managed to recover his form more recently.<\/p>\n

Former F1 driver Marc Surer told Speed Week: “I think the reason (for the turnaround) is twofold.<\/p>\n

“First, even a rock like Alonso is not endlessly resilient.\u00a0 The title fight against Vettel, usually with a slower car, has exhausted him.<\/p>\n

“I also believe that a number of improvements to the Ferrari have matched Massa’s style of driving more than Alonso’s,” he added.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reasons, the fact Massa pulled his career from the brink to secure a new deal for 2013 culminated in his tears on the Interlagos podium.<\/p>\n

“First of all I was on the podium, which is a great emotion,” Massa told Sportv’s Bem Amigos programme.<\/p>\n

“But I think I was crying more because of the difficulties than the joys,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

“I have taken a lot of punches, and even thought for a moment ‘do I want to do this?’\u00a0 I had started to think above my head, which had gone into space.<\/p>\n

“From there I started to think the way I had always thought again.\u00a0 Behind the podium, I was normal — I was congratulating Vettel, enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n

“But the minute I looked at all the stands screaming my name, my wife, my family, my friends, all my mechanics, my team … then I fell (into crying).”<\/p>\n

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Felipe Massa has revealed that amid his tumultuous 2012 season, he thought about quitting. When the Brazilian mounted the podium in his native Brazil on Sunday, he openly cried. Following a dire start to his 2012 campaign, and indeed a fallow few seasons since his almost fatal injuries of 2009, the 31-year-old has managed to …<\/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":[2059,5262,130,93],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218"}],"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=17218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}