Felipe Massa

Ahead of today`s second free practice session, the air temperature is 30 degrees C, and the track temperature is 42 degrees. It remains bright and sunny, with the wind picking up just a little.
Almost immediately, Glock gets it all wrong, making full use of the Bahrain International Circuit`s generous tarmac run-offs.
Trulli is first to post […]

Ferrari this afternoon continued its domination of the opening day of practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix with Felipe Massa lapping almost a second clear of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and leaving the rest trailing behind. Massa saved his hot lap until the final minutes of the session, stopping the clocks with a best time of […]

Ferrari continued to dominate Bahrain Grand Prix practice in the second session, with Felipe Massa again leading teammate Kimi Raikkonen in a one-two.
The Brazilian ended the afternoon almost one second quicker than Raikkonen, having lapped in 1:31.420 in the final seconds.
McLaren finished third and fourth, but Lewis Hamilton ended the afternoon in the barriers.
The […]

Felipe Massa led teammate Kimi Raikkonen in a Ferrari one-two in the first free practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Williams` Nico Rosberg took third with a late qualifying-style run, ahead of McLaren`s Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.
The leading teams stayed in the pits for the first 35 minutes to allow others to clean the […]

Ahead of this morning`s free practice session, the air temperature is 27 degrees C, while the track temperature is 34 degrees. It is bright and sunny, as one would expect from a circuit located in the middle of a desert. Thankfully, it`s not too windy.
You have our word that the next ninety minutes will be […]

The opening practice session of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend saw - as expected - Ferrari top the timesheets. After the strong showing in Malaysia, combined with six days of pre-season testing at Sakhir, Ferrari are very much the pre-race favourites this weekend with Felipe Massa leading the way for the Italian champions after the […]

Felipe Massa has denied he is having problems adapting to the new regulations banning driving aids, and said his retirement from the Malaysian Grand Prix was not his fault.
“No, definitely not,” Massa told reporters when asked if he was struggling with this year`s regulations. “I am comfortable in the car. I just had bad results.
“That […]

Seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher is confident that his former apprentice, Felipe Massa, will put the nightmare of Melbourne and Sepang behind him, possibly as early as this weekend in Bahrain, where he was race winner in 2007.
Having failed to score a point thus far this season, spinning out of an almost certain podium finish […]

Ferrari`s Felipe Massa cannot afford to make any more mistakes if he wants to win the Formula One world title in 2008, that is the view of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
“He (Massa) has zero points for the season, so it is not the best of starts … he has played his jokers so far, […]

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Michael Schumacher believes Ferrari`s Felipe Massa can still win the drivers` championship despite his poor start to the Formula One season.

The former world champion says Massa, who has yet to score a point, can get back to winning ways this weekend in Bahrain, where he won last year.

He said: “It`s not the best of […]

Luca di Montezemolo has rubbished speculation that Felipe Massa`s seat at Ferrari is in danger. Massa has had a difficult start to the 2008 season, with retirements in both the Australian and Malaysian Grand Prix. But to the website of the Italian language La Gazzetta dello Sport, Ferrari President Montezemolo would not entertain rumours that […]

This time last year McLaren arrived in Bahrain with high hopes. While Ferrari had floundered in Malaysia, the British team had dominated, and with similarly hot conditions expected in the desert, the silver cars were widely tipped for success. Rookie driver Lewis Hamilton was aiming high too, targeting his maiden Formula One victory, after his […]

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says Brazilian driver Felipe Massa in not under pressure despite his poor start to the 2008 season.
Massa has retired from both the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix - from second in the second race - and speculation has already suggested the Brazilian`s seat could be in danger despite having two […]

Ferrari have hinted that they may not replace Felipe Massa`s engine for this weekend`s Bahrain Grand Prix, even though the Brazilian failed to finish in Malaysia.
Massa spun out of the Sepang race after making a mistake while running second, and his retirement leaves the way open for Ferrari to fit a new unit to his […]

As first reported Wednesday, a Ferrari spokesman has reiterated that Felipe Massa`s Sepang spin was caused fundamentally by driver error.The Italian team has been coy as it investigated the incident, which sparked intense speculation that the Brazilian`s position beyond 2008 might be in doubt.Massa`s Malaysian retirement followed the earlier Australian Grand Prix, where the 26-year-old […]

Felipe Massa believes this year`s regulations have made the final qualifying segment boring in comparison to previous seasons.
The final session has been shortened to 10 minutes for this year, eliminating the wasteful fuel burning seen last season at the start of the final round.
Refuelling is not allowed now between the end of qualifying and the […]

Felipe Massa is confident that the end of the Jean Todt era at Ferrari will not adversely affect the performance of the Italian team. Todt handed over day-to-day managerial duties to new team principal Stefano Domenicali in January and recently relinquished his title of CEO to Amedeo Felisa.
“To be honest, everything feels pretty much the […]

The pressure is continuing to mount on the shoulders of Felipe Massa, as observers chide his driving errors so far in 2008.“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and Ferrari`s is Felipe Massa,” Sir Jackie Stewart, after watching the Brazilian driver terminally spin his Ferrari in Malaysia, told Motorsport Aktuell.There is some […]

Felipe Massa believes he can still fight for the championship, despite retiring from the first two races of the season.
The Brazilian spun at Melbourne before an engine failure forced his retirement, and he spun out of the race at Malaysia last weekend leaving him 14 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
“It was not the start […]

In his blog for Ferrari, Felipe Massa covers a number of issues, the revised qualifying format, the post-Todt era at Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen`s victory at Sepang and his own start to the 2008 season.
"On Sunday night, I left the Sepang Circuit at the end of a weekend that had not lived up to the result […]

‘We saw that everyone can have a good day or a bad day’ It has not been the easiest of starts to the season for Felipe Massa…
 

A Ferrari spokesman has plainly dismissed rumours that a deal is already in place to put Fernando Alonso alongside Kimi Raikkonen at the Italian team in 2009.“There is no arrangement at all with Fernando and Ferrari,” he is quoted as saying by The Times.“We have two drivers already contracted for next year - Mr […]

A spokesman for Ferrari has ruled out any lingering doubt that Felipe Massa`s terminal Sepang spin was caused by a technical problem. Amid rumours that his seat for 2009 may not be safe, Ferrari officials said they would check whether any aspect of the car could be blamed for what appeared to be the Brazilian`s […]

Ferrari insist they are not concerned about Felipe Massa`s disastrous start to the season, despite the Brazilian throwing away second place in the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Massa ran wide at Turn 6 halfway through the race at Sepang.
When he clouted a kerb it stalled the car`s aerodynamics and caused him to lose control of the […]

Felipe Massa`s newly married wife was unimpressed with speculation linking her husband with an early exit from Ferrari.It has been rumoured all week in Malaysia that, despite the Brazilian driver`s ongoing contract with the Italian team, Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso are in fact more likely to be driving the red car in 2009.On live […]