Felipe Massa will not be reuniting with his usual race engineer in 2014.<\/p>\n
There has been speculation that, because both Brazilian Massa and his well-known, long-time race engineer Rob Smedley are moving from Ferrari to Williams, they might reunite in their old working relationship at the Grove based team.<\/p>\n
But it is believed Briton Smedley, who has been at Ferrari for ten years and is famous for his big-brotherly radio banter with Massa, has accepted an engineering role with greater responsibility at Williams.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Williams confirmed that Massa will work directly with Andrew Murdoch this year, who was the Lotus-departed Pastor Maldonado’s race engineer in 2013.<\/p>\n
“I get on very well with Felipe,” Massa’s new Williams teammate, Finn Valtteri Bottas, said.<\/p>\n
“He’s a very nice guy and a great driver.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Brazil’s Globo reports that, having failed to find a race seat for 2014, rising Brazilian driver Felipe Nasr is now targeting a reserve and Friday seat at Williams.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately it (finding a race seat) did not work for financial reasons and due to my little experience,” said Nasr, who finished last year’s GP2 championship in fourth place.<\/p>\n
“So the plan now is to try to be third driver in a middle team.”<\/p>\n
He said a place at Williams, working alongside his countryman Massa, would be “positive”.<\/p>\n
“With another Brazilian there I think it would make the exchange of information easier, so it is something that could happen.\u00a0 It is open,” Nasr admitted.<\/p>\n
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