{"id":21918,"date":"2014-05-13T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21918"},"modified":"2014-05-13T07:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:04:53","slug":"massa-not-worried-about-latest-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-not-worried-about-latest-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa &#8216;not worried&#8217; about latest criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa insists he is not fazed by the latest round of criticism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Felipe-Massa-2.jpg\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa-2\" width=\"467\" height=\"311\" \/>The Brazilian was often under fire as a Ferrari driver, but for 2014 he switched to Williams where he relished the chance to be a de-facto &#8216;number 1&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain last weekend, however, Massa qualified ninth while his young teammate Valtteri Bottas made the headlines with his impressive run to fourth.<\/p>\n<p>And in the race, the 33-year-old struggled even more, and he was lapped and out of the points as Finn Bottas, 24, finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Massa is facing criticism, but he told Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace: &#8220;I&#8217;m not the least bit worried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The focus is on the next race and doing a better job.\u00a0 I&#8217;m used to the pressure,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Grove based team is currently looking into why his tyre wear was much higher than expected in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the only change was the temperature,&#8221; said Massa.\u00a0 &#8220;With the colder track, something did not work for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa insists he is not fazed by the latest round of criticism. The Brazilian was often under fire as a Ferrari driver, but for 2014 he switched to Williams where he relished the chance to be a de-facto &#8216;number 1&#8217;. In Spain last weekend, however, Massa qualified ninth while his young teammate Valtteri Bottas &#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":[5262,130,5340,538,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21918"}],"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=21918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21919,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21918\/revisions\/21919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}