{"id":22101,"date":"2014-05-29T06:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22101"},"modified":"2014-05-29T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:32:43","slug":"massa-glad-ferrari-axe-led-to-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-glad-ferrari-axe-led-to-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa ‘glad’ Ferrari axe led to Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felipe Massa says he is “glad” Ferrari dumped him at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

\"Felipe-Massa-2\"The Brazilian drove for the fabled Maranello team between 2006 and 2013, racing alongside highly-rated champions Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n

But Ferrari chose to sign the returning 2007 title winner Raikkonen for this year, with Massa now insisting he is not surprised the Finn is struggling alongside Spaniard Alonso.<\/p>\n

Massa told Germany’s Auto Bild he thinks Raikkonen is “maybe not quite as good” as Alonso.<\/p>\n

In fact, the 33-year-old said he had the measure of the ‘iceman’.<\/p>\n

“In 2007 he was champion, but until Monza I was ahead of him,” said Massa, recalling his battle with Raikkonen some seven years ago.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, in our team we had an agreement that Monza would decide who is the number 1, and I was ahead of Kimi when I had a problem with my car.<\/p>\n

“In 2008 I was in front of him,” Massa added, “and also up until my accident in Hungary in 2009.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Kimi is world champion, and I’m not.”<\/p>\n

However, Massa insists he has no regrets about losing his Ferrari seat for 2014 and moving to Williams.<\/p>\n

“It was absolutely the right move,” he told Germany’s Sport Bild.<\/p>\n

“Looking back now, I am even glad that Ferrari did not want me because it opened the way for coming to Williams.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty relaxed, motivated, the team respects me,” Massa explained.\u00a0 “You know, sometimes a change is good.<\/p>\n

“I’m older but I feel young again.\u00a0 I’m ready to fight and work hard.\u00a0 I regret nothing,” he added.<\/p>\n

Massa also admitted that he doesn’t miss the ultra high-pressure of wearing a red suit.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely not!” he exclaimed.\u00a0 “At Ferrari it was huge — if you don’t win, you have a big load on your shoulders.<\/p>\n

“You try to use it as positive energy, but you are constantly tense.<\/p>\n

“Here at Williams I think only about the racing, which is better,” said Massa.<\/p>\n

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Felipe Massa says he is “glad” Ferrari dumped him at the end of last year. The Brazilian drove for the fabled Maranello team between 2006 and 2013, racing alongside highly-rated champions Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso. But Ferrari chose to sign the returning 2007 title winner Raikkonen for this year, with Massa now …<\/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":[5262,130,93,5340,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101"}],"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=22101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22102,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22101\/revisions\/22102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}