{"id":18876,"date":"2013-07-26T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18876"},"modified":"2013-07-26T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:12:23","slug":"massa-warns-ferrari-exit-could-end-f1-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-warns-ferrari-exit-could-end-f1-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa warns Ferrari exit could end F1 career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa has admitted he could drive off the grid altogether if Ferrari does not extend his contract beyond 2013.<\/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\" \/>The well-connected Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper said Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta are at the front of the queue if Ferrari decide Massa&#8217;s struggle for results recently should end his long tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates were not denying the speculation in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To tell you the truth,&#8221; Force India&#8217;s di Resta told F1&#8217;s official website, &#8220;my management team is looking at what is best for me to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Sauber&#8217;s Hulkenberg is quoted by Frankfurter Rundschau: &#8220;Ferrari has a tremendous history and is one of the top teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But as to my future, that&#8217;s still wide open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Massa, 32, admitted he needs to put his focus on the road in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t drive with extra worry or fear,&#8221; he told Brazilian correspondent Livio Oricchio.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve never done that in my life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I am forced to change, it would have to be somewhere else competitive, otherwise I wouldn&#8217;t want to stay in formula one,&#8221; Massa insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Globo quotes Massa adding: &#8220;I want to stay in F1, but to compete, not to (just) participate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If for some reason I do not have the chance to stay at Ferrari, I will try to go somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if I can only go to small teams, I&#8217;m not interested,&#8221; he insisted.<\/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 could drive off the grid altogether if Ferrari does not extend his contract beyond 2013. The well-connected Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper said Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta are at the front of the queue if Ferrari decide Massa&#8217;s struggle for results recently should end his long &#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":[5262,130,93,5340,448,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876"}],"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=18876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18877,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}