{"id":20561,"date":"2013-12-17T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20561"},"modified":"2013-12-17T07:01:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:01:36","slug":"alonso-tips-ferrari-to-miss-massas-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-tips-ferrari-to-miss-massas-input\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso tips Ferrari to ‘miss’ Massa’s input"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrari is likely to “miss” Felipe Massa, according to the Williams-bound Brazilian’s teammate of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n

\"Fernando-Alonso-2\"For 2014, after a period in which Fernando Alonso was regarded as the clear number 1 at Maranello, the Italian team has signed up its last world champion Kimi Raikkonen to replace Massa.<\/p>\n

Alonso, who said he counts Massa among his few friends on the F1 grid, pushed to keep the 32-year-old on board, but ultimately must now face the prospect of working alongside the famously cool and odd Finn.<\/p>\n

“Definitely Felipe was a hard worker,” Alonso told Brazil’s Totalrace.<\/p>\n

“He works day and night for the team to improve the car’s performance,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know Kimi, but the rumours say that he speaks very little and is a bit more isolated.\u00a0 So I think that Ferrari could miss him (Massa),” said Alonso.<\/p>\n

However, Alonso played down the prospect that a bad working relationship between himself and Raikkonen – like the one between former Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and the retiring Mark Webber – will hurt Ferrari.<\/p>\n

“What we have to do now is focus on making a good car in the winter,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

“If it’s good, like the Red Bull, it doesn’t matter if there’s ‘Multi-21’, ‘Multi-35’ or anything like that, because the atmosphere in the team will be great,” Alonso added.<\/p>\n

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Ferrari is likely to “miss” Felipe Massa, according to the Williams-bound Brazilian’s teammate of the last four seasons. For 2014, after a period in which Fernando Alonso was regarded as the clear number 1 at Maranello, the Italian team has signed up its last world champion Kimi Raikkonen to replace Massa. Alonso, who said he …<\/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":[5262,130,149,93,5340,152,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561"}],"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=20561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20562,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561\/revisions\/20562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}