{"id":2954,"date":"2010-03-08T06:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2010-03-08T06:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:17:50","slug":"massa-plays-down-stance-against-new-f1-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-plays-down-stance-against-new-f1-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa plays down stance against new F1 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Felipe Massa on Sunday played down reports that quoted him as saying F1&#8217;s influx of three new small teams is &#8220;not good for the sport&#8221;.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Ferrari recently bitterly attacked the entrance of its struggling new competitors Virgin, Lotus and Campos, 28-year-old Massa appeared to be on message when his employer published a translation of an interview with Corriere della Sera.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not good for the sport and not good for them: it&#8217;s like two different series,&#8221; he told the Italian newspaper, according to Ferrari&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>During a Santander sponsor event at Interlagos on Sunday, however, Massa said he is not opposed to F1 boasting a full grid of teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read the stories in the press that I spoke badly about the new teams,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Brazil&#8217;s Globo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t do that, I just said the (lap) time difference (to the established teams) is too big.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It cannot be good for anyone if a car is three seconds slower: not for the sport, for the people who watch, or for the teams themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I am in favour of new teams coming in, because the more cars racing the better,&#8221; said Massa, who drove a 2008 Ferrari fitted with demonstration tyres around the Interlagos circuit in his native Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa on Sunday played down reports that quoted him as saying F1&#8217;s influx of three new small teams is &#8220;not good for the sport&#8221;. \u00a0 After Ferrari recently bitterly attacked the entrance of its struggling new competitors Virgin, Lotus and Campos, 28-year-old Massa appeared to be on message when his employer published a translation &#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":[354,5262,130,60,861,359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"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=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}