{"id":18475,"date":"2013-06-09T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18475"},"modified":"2013-06-09T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T12:10:48","slug":"massa-criticises-f1-medical-response-after-monaco-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-criticises-f1-medical-response-after-monaco-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa criticises F1 medical response after Monaco crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa criticised the reaction to his Monaco grand prix crash during the drivers&#8217; briefing ahead of this weekend&#8217;s race in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa-car-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Felipe-Massa-car-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, reporting that the Ferrari driver was disappointed in the aftermath of his Ste-Devote crash that left him with a sore neck in the wake of an earlier, near-identical high speed incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took 13 minutes for the ambulance to get there,&#8221; the Brazilian is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I had to climb over fences to get to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The frustrated 32-year-old was speaking in Montreal on Saturday, where he had yet another high speed crash, his third in the space of two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a movie plot,&#8221; Massa groaned to Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace.\u00a0 O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper quoted him as saying the crash hurt &#8220;not physically, but psychologically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very upset about what happened and I got out of the car very angry because I don&#8217;t remember anything like this happening in my career &#8212; three accidents so close to one another,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His second crash in Monaco was caused by a suspension failure, but on Saturday Massa accepted the blame for his latest incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My time was not good and so I was risking everything and ended up risking too much and braking on the white line,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;It was all or nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly pushing for a new contract for 2014, Massa denied that his recent crashes have hurt his standing with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a team,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;We win and lose together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are situations where it is not the drivers&#8217; fault, maybe it&#8217;s the car or the strategy, but it&#8217;s all teamwork,&#8221; said Massa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa criticised the reaction to his Monaco grand prix crash during the drivers&#8217; briefing ahead of this weekend&#8217;s race in Canada. That is the claim of Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, reporting that the Ferrari driver was disappointed in the aftermath of his Ste-Devote crash that left him with a sore neck in the &#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":[3],"tags":[5262,130,93,5340,1534,4484],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475"}],"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=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18476,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions\/18476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}