Despite having endured two collisions along the way, Felipe Massa's drive in the Japanese Grand Prix has been praised as ‘amazing' by Ferrari, whilst the man himself refuted all blame in his comings-together with Lewis Hamilton and Sébastien Bourdais.
Any fool knows that massa ran into hamilton....fair??
Posted by gary - Unregistered (51 days ago)
28 people agree.5 people disagree.
I think this story just sums up Ferrari and Massa'a unbelievable arrogance and the complete lack of respect they have for the sport.
How can Massa honestly think his move on Hamilton was fair? Hamilton put a fair pass on him, Massa drove all four wheels over the kerb off the road into the side of him and spun him out. Personally I think it was intentional. We'll probably never know.
As for his collision with Bourdais, how was Seb at fault? He left the pits and turned into turn one as normal, Massa just turned in as if Seb wasn't there, gave him and no room and they collided. Massa statement seems to suggest that if a Ferrari is coming down the straight everyone else should give way
Posted by MJ - Unregistered (51 days ago)
16 people agree.13 people disagree.
You People seem to be forgetting how irrational Hamilton was towards Timo Glock (pushing him off onto wet grass) and Mark Webber (banging wheels with him) in Monza, but i can gurantee none of you was moaning about this, and he had a taste of his own medicine today and i for one am glad that Massa didn't just roll over like everyone else, and your all sitting here crying and moaning about it.
I was waiting for the Stewards to give Massa a penalty for the overtaking on Webber. When Webber had racing line and Massa used the Pit lane entry to squeese Webber of th eracing line. Bourdais was blameless as he had racing line and Massa "tried" to overtake round the outside and squeese Bourdais into corner. I did not agree with the Lewis penalty, as this is the same thing that Alonzo did last year to LH at first corner at Spa. And again somebody did LH at the same corner in Spa this year. One point we are all missing is that Massa gained and unfair advantage in the LH punt off incident and should have been given a stop and go and not a drive through penalty. Inconsistency or what
Posted by Steve - Unregistered (51 days ago)
7 people agree.3 people disagree.
don't forget massa is being mentored by one m schumacher,he was well known for trying to take people of who were about to overtake him remember when ms broke damon hills suspension by banging wheels with him,ms got the championship that year. or the time ms banged into jaque villeneuve's sidepod to try to stop him getting past him. i'm beggining to think that ferrari's motto is "if you can't beat them,knock them off,and if all else fails we've still got the fia in our pockets to use as a joker.
Posted by herbert clinker - Unregistered (51 days ago)
6 people agree.7 people disagree.
massa is a cheat ? he's only a driver my friend he has no control over f1/stewards,etc... grow up boy...
Posted by ze - Unregistered (51 days ago)
6 people agree.2 people disagree.
Ryan - he didn't score two points. He was given at least one of them by Ferrari International Assistance.
Posted by Groomi - Unregistered (51 days ago)
1 people disagree.
Hey fair hamilton, what do you mean by 'If there is one team that has the most of everything in F1 history is Ferrari.'? You mean if all teams and drivers follow what Ferrari and its drivers, past and present, do and did, it should be okay? If so, why are we seeing those tricks the prick horse's drivers ever done ended up as penalties when other teams and drivers tried to emulate? Why not 'racing incidents'?
I remember MS' cheats ever since his 1994 last-round car-crashing all-DNF championship-clinching trick. The one mentioned by herbert clinker. That incident was tagged as 'racing incident'. What we're seeing in F1 now is reality check that F1 has been run by Ferrari's peeps all this time
Sorry guys. I missed the end of the race it seems. (He spun off).
I thought Felipe Massa scored no points.
I was wrong, I apologise.
Posted by Emma Hughes - Unregistered (51 days ago)
4 people agree.5 people disagree.
ferrari are cheats?
i think it was mclaren team that caught pents down with illegal ferrari documents or am i wrong?
there are really funny guys around here.
Posted by red - Unregistered (51 days ago)
2 people agree.
To be honest I used to think Lewis would be the next best thing to Michael Shumacher - I just don't reckon he'll be world champion. He fights to lose at the crucial stages. The stewards rules seem to be - never go near a Red car and if you do we'll penalise you. That was shown with the Kimi 'incident' at turn one and pour old Bourdais. What used to be racing fair and square is now nanny state running the races from behind a desk.
Every time they try to make F1 non-sleep inducing, the 'jobsworths' come out in drives and take racing back to the dark ages. I say make racing more exciting. Funny how none of these nanny rules seem to exist in British Touring Car Championships.................
Posted by Chris - Unregistered (51 days ago)
1 people disagree.
@Red, look deeper before typing. 100mln USD fine was to try to kill MCL, and never seen in any sport..look where they are, without any suposed cheat. Its like Bush using the WMD as excuse to attack Irak. the bigger the lie and cover up the easier to make the little minds believe it. Majority of Ferrari fans that i know are ashamed of how this is going. the first 2 times the stewarts gave Schumi an advantage was ok, but now its become really obvious. what goes around comes around. one day this will hit them in the face.. O right maybe not, now that the toad is going to FIA officialy. big "Cough" about all this.
Posted by nopreferences - Unregistered (51 days ago)
2 people agree.7 people disagree.
OK, for those of you who are fed up with F1 and are referring to the FIA as Ferrari International Assistance. GO AND WATCH ANOTHER SPORT AND BITCH ABOUT THAT
Posted by Pigman - Unregistered (51 days ago)
4 people agree.1 people disagree.
I'm surprised nobody is drawing the comparison with Le Mans. In a similarish situation, Lewis responded by cutting the chicane while Massa chose instead to drive into Hamilton. At Le Mans Hamilton was penalised without messing up anyone else's race while Massa, arguably given a similar penalty, put his main rival off the track and could easily have caused a more serious accident.
At least Hamilton had enough integrity to admit his mistake at the first turn. Pity that Massa is not more of a man.
FIA to the rescue again it seems.
Posted by Ian - Unregistered (51 days ago)
4 people agree.2 people disagree.
with respect to the Glock/Hamilton incident in Monza...
the way i watched it hamilton was past Glock n moved across to take the racing line for the next corner. In the mirrors of Formula One cars you cannot see much so Hamilton may not have seen Glock and forcing him off onto the grass may not have been intentional. "Rubbin is racing!!!!"
Im not defending hamiltons driving or tryin 2 support him but he deserves some benefit of doubt. N pleez will people on this forum stop bringing up the Ferrari Mclaren spygate saga of 08. It has been and gone and dealt with as the FIA saw fit... Lets all be adults n look ahead to the last two races..
Posted by matt - Unregistered (51 days ago)
4 people agree.
I don't know how long I've watched F1, but I'm at the end of my patience with it.
Back in the Mansell/Prost/Senna era, people could actually race each other, make hard passing moves, and win races without the fear of retrospective penalties robbing those driving, and those watching of the excitement of a race. Why on earth would I want to watch a race that could be overturned after the chequered flag has dropped? If the stewards are to decide the outcome of races then I'm not going to waste my Sunday afternoon watching the cars going around.
If Hamilton wins this year, he will have won despite his rookie errors - if Massa wins it'll be credited to the FIA.
What a farce.
Posted by Wheelspin - Unregistered (51 days ago)
1 people disagree.
@red
If you can't beat them join them son
Posted by Silver & Black - Unregistered (50 days ago)
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