Felipe Massa: “An important weekend”

“I’m 100% fine”. Felipe Massa wants to be reassuring before starting the Canadian Grand Prix, after a very complicated stage in Monaco, marked by two violent accidents and a trip to the hospital. “The two accidents looked very similar from the outside, but were very different in their causes”, remembers the Paulist. “In the first one, I jumped over the bumps, went straight, and hit the safety barriers. As for the second, a suspension broke. I just had a little pain in my neck, which is normal after two accidents in two days whose impacts were in the same direction. »

Despite the shock, the Brazilian affirms, his “confidence was not affected”. Especially since Scuderia Ferrari must absolutely get back on track this weekend if she wants to maintain a chance in her fight for the world titles. “It’s an important weekend for us”, announces the pilot. “I hope that we will all, the team, Fernando and myself, fight for the podium again”. A result that the 2008 world vice-champion has never obtained on Notre-Dame Island, on a circuit that has not really been successful for him? Except in 2004: “I got a fourth place with Sauber, it was a good race”.