Quotes by Felipe Massa - Page 2

These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce. When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.
Felipe Massa /
Formula One
Overtake
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A team that can build a stronger car, a stronger working environment. A team that has the possibility to create something, that would be interesting.
Felipe Massa /
Car
Environment
Interesting
Possibility
Stronger
Team
Build
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Honestly, I think they need to work to improve the categories. If the driver goes from the go-kart to F3 one year and then to F1, why do we have GP3, GP2?
Felipe Massa /
Categories
Driver
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Everything for us as a driver is related to our working, on your work and how you feel. It helps how you feel, how happy you are; also for your private life.
Felipe Massa /
Private Life
Related
Life Work Your
Life Work Feel
Driver
Helps
Private
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I'm very happy to be joining the Venturi Formula E Team and the Formula E championship, which has become a magnificent competition in such a short space of time.
Felipe Massa /
Championship
Joining
Magnificent
Short Space
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My year with Ferrari was of incredible value to me. I learned a lot about all the technical aspects of the car and also how to improve my work with the engineers.
Felipe Massa /
Engineers
Ferrari
Work Car Me
Aspects
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I'm pretty relaxed, trying to enjoy the races, trying to do the best I can in the car, trying to the give the best to the team, and that's the most important thing.
Felipe Massa /
Relaxed
Races
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The worst feeling is when you don't have brakes, you cannot stop the car and you see that the wall is just coming in front of you. That's really a very scary moment.
Felipe Massa /
Brakes
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My return is not about seeing Formula One as the best option, but is about seeing the role at Williams as the best option. I would not have returned for any other team.
Felipe Massa /
Formula One
Return
Seeing
Team
Option
Formula
Role
Williams
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People always put me completely out of the game, and that's even nicer because nobody expects you to do a good job and then you do a better job than everybody thinks and it's nicer.
Felipe Massa /
Good Job
Good Always Me
Better Job
Good Game Me
Good Better Always
Expects
Nicer
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I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.
Felipe Massa /
Championship
Drivers
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The accident did not change my life, change the way I think, the way I work. For sure, it gave me even more experience. The biggest problem was my sight, I couldn't see with my left eye.
Felipe Massa /
Sight
Life Change Work
Accident
Biggest Problem
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I don't want to be the king, 'I don't need that, I want to race even without the helmet, I am the king.' I am not like that. I just want to make things better for the drivers and for the safety.
Felipe Massa /
Drivers
Helmet
Safety
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When I entered Formula One in 2002 basically all I had was my talent, but now I also have the technical knowledge which enables me, together with my engineers, to fully exploit the potential of the car.
Felipe Massa /
Engineers
Formula One
Technical Knowledge
Enables
Entered
Exploit
Formula
Technical
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Driving for Ferrari is completely different. Not in the way you work, the way of working is similar in whatever team you go - especially in the top teams. But it's different because it's like a religion.
Felipe Massa /
Ferrari
Similar
Teams
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The people in the grandstand just want to see good driving, good overtaking. But inside the sport everything is about money and politics. It's stupid. And I'm not just talking about Formula One. It's every sport.
Felipe Massa /
Formula One
Politics Good Money
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For sure people around me, they always say don't do ovals, we are not happy to see you doing that. I'm not saying I'm scared, I'm not scared to do ovals. But I never thought about it. I was not really planning to go to do Formula Indy.
Felipe Massa /
Planning
Me People Happy
Indy
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When I woke up I didn't know why I was in hospital so I was asking 'Why am I here?' I was pulling all the tubes and my brother Eduardo tried to stop me so we had a fight. The accident was just so unlucky, but I know I am lucky to be alive.
Felipe Massa /
Pulling
Tubes
Unlucky
I Am Fight Me
Accident
Fight I Am Me
Hospital
Woke
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Sauber had a bad championship the year after they fired me and so if I had stayed it would have not been so good. Sometimes life does these things to you because it's the right thing. You think it's wrong, 'initially, but life proves different.
Felipe Massa /
Championship
Right Thing
Life Good Me
Fired
Initially
Proves
Stayed
The Right Thing
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I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.
Felipe Massa /
Psychologist
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My son understands a lot and he's pushing me really hard. He always tells me 'you need to win, you need to be good.' He's happy to see that his father is racing and I think he understands step by step more about Formula One and he really likes it.
Felipe Massa /
Formula One
Pushing
Racing
Good Step Me
Good Father Me
Understands
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On the one hand, I set my goals high, but on the other I do not underestimate our competitors either, who are using all their resources to challenge us. However, I also see what a fantastic job Sauber is doing and the progress we are constantly making.
Felipe Massa /
Underestimate
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Just competing in the Brazilian GP is a dream for all Brazilian racing drivers. I remember sitting in the grandstands when I was a kid, watching Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and even Rubens Barrichello. After that, to race there in Formula One is a feeling that is hard to explain.
Felipe Massa /
Competing
Drivers
Formula One
Nelson
Racing
Brazilian
Formula
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Every day you are in the media for good or for bad and sometimes this is not helping the driver or the team to control the driver in the best way as well. But Ferrari is Ferrari and the biggest, most famous team in Formula One, so you have a lot more pressure there than at another team.
Felipe Massa /
Best Way
Ferrari
Formula One
Driver
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I still wanted to race in Formula One, for a correct team, a nice team, one that is professional, where you would feel important. But there was no position for me to carry on, so I felt if that opportunity wasn't there, then it would be better for me to stop, and start thinking about doing different things.
Felipe Massa /
Different Things
Formula One
Correct
Formula
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When the media began reporting that I might return, I was touched by the response from so many fans who wanted to see me back in the sport. That was certainly a factor in the decision, so I'd like to thank the fans for their support. But, at the end of the day, when I received the call it was an offer I couldn't refuse. It was Williams!
Felipe Massa /
Response
Touched
Factor
Received
Reporting
Williams
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