Felipe Massa: “I know I can be champion”

Felipe Massa is better. After a disastrous debut in 2012, the Brazilian driver then had a more convincing second part of the season. In particular by making his return to the podium and helping as much as he could Fernando Alonso, his teammate, in the unsuccessful quest for a third world crown, he even ensured an additional year of contract at Ferrari. According to the admission of the pilot himself, it was not won?

“I thought I was finished”, confides the Brazilian in the columns of the Sun. “I thought about leaving Ferrari. I didn't know what was going to happen. There were so many things on my mind. » After this major challenge, the pilot began to regain color at the end of the summer. “It’s not so much the car that changed from August, it’s me,” he explains at the Daily Telegraph. “Maybe I no longer loved what I was doing, that I was no longer happy. But I am again today. Having fun behind the wheel is the best way to be fast and efficient. I can relive a season like in 2008”. That year, with five victories, he came within 1 point of the world champion title, won by Lewis Hamilton.

Visibly totally re-motivated, Felipe Massa announces that he does not intend to stop there and wants to play one of the leading roles in 2013. " I believe in myself. I know I can be champion. I know that I can win, that I can become again what I was. I believe that when we manage to understand each other, it makes us stronger, stronger all the time,” he concluded.