Felipe Massa

[Ben Tusting]

Felipe Massa says he remains suspicious that Fernando Alonso did know about the deliberate crash plot at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix - but has vowed not to let it affect his future relationship with the Spaniard.Massa spoke to Brazilian media during a get-together in Sao Paulo on Wednesday and, during the lunch, he said he was in no doubt that Alonso had to have been aware of the plans for Nelson Piquet to crash deliberately in the Singapore event last year to try and help him win.
"In all, he is the least of the problem," Massa was quoted as saying by the Brazilian media about Alonso's involvement in the affair.
"It was the team and Nelson - but Alonso was part of the problem. He knew. We can not know it [but] of course he knew. [It's an] absolute certainty."
The comments created a huge media storm in Brazil ahead of this weekend's grand prix, and Massa and Ferrari moved to clarify the remarks in a statement issued on the Maranello team's official website on Wednesday evening.
In it, Massa said that his comments relate to a feeling he has rather than being based on facts, and he totally respects the FIA's findings from its investigations that Alonso was not aware of the crash plot.
"What I've said is the outcome of a hunch I've had and is not based on any concrete evidence," Massa said in his statement. "The FIA World Council announced that there was no indication that Fernando may have been informed of what had happened and I respect this outcome.
"Obviously I'm very disappointed about what transpired last year in Singapore: I have already said several times what I thought about it and now it's time to close that chapter and to look to the future.
"What is certain is that this episode will not mar in any way the relationship I'll have with Fernando when we will be team-mates."

Source
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79435

 

[Andrew Evans]

"i don't wanna ruin the relationship with my new team mate... and what i say won't affect that at all... but damn, i think he was part of the conspiracy at renault... but i don't mean it... honestly.... but man, what a dirty cheat..."

obviously the knock on the head has done damage to the link between thinking and speaking...

i hope alonso burns him hard in 2010....

 

[Mark Birney]

obviously the knock on the head has done damage to the link between thinking and speaking...

i hope alonso burns him hard in 2010....

fak ye

 

[Andrew Evans]

tres bon raymonde :clap:

 

[Lewis Fergusson]

massa needs to stfu

quoten old evans poast.

 

[Andrew Evans]

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHE!

 

[Ryan Callan]

Making plenty of friends while he's away Mr Massa isn't he? I loved Lewis' veiled dig "that Massa was back to his old self", a couple of weeks back.

He's not even involved in race weekends at the moment, he needs, as Evanso so eloquently said, to stfu

 

[Keith Peppiatt]

has massa really recovered from the injury or has his internal clutch failed and he engages mouth before thinking?

 

[Omer Said]

Total Massacre!

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

And upon reading Massa's comments, Rhys facepalmed. Repeatedly.

 

[Neil Gault]

sounds like he is well on the way to stirring the poo with a real big shuffle :wink2:
nice exercise in teambuilding (not)

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I'm enjoying Massa's work, actually.

I'm no lover of Massa, Alonso or Ferrari, so watching them all spiral into self induced entropy gladdens my black heart.

 

[David Garcia]

"i don't wanna ruin the relationship with my new team mate... and what i say won't affect that at all... but damn, i think he was part of the conspiracy at renault... but i don't mean it... honestly.... but man, what a dirty cheat..."

obviously the knock on the head has done damage to the link between thinking and speaking...

i hope alonso burns him hard in 2010....

Agree on your last sentence Andrew. Massa is taking credits from Alonso before being in the same team, but races are on track and not in media, so I hope Alonso really burns Massa next year. How can Massa know about Renault affairs???

By the way, I hope Piquet never goes back to F1 after accepting the crash orders and don´t say anything until a year later. This guys´s career is over.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

To be honest I think he's right about this one.
There are 2 possibilities:
- Alonso knew about the plan
- He was so stupid to believe, that starting light from 15th on a track where passing is nearly impossible will be a good strategy.
Hmm...

 

[Michael Herrmann]

anyone who thinks alonso did not know about the fix is closeing his pants with a hammer, sorry but noone with a IQ more as 5 can think he did not know it

 

[David Garcia]

sorry but noone with a IQ more as 5 can think he did not know it

:confused2: what a post mate... It is curious but I think exactly the same about the people who believes the treatment from McLaren to Alonso and Hamilton was equitative in 2007.

 

[Ben Tusting]

I suppose Alonso is spanish, so the IQ bit could be true

 

[David Garcia]

BEN :tits:

Anyway, I have heard your IQ is lower as much in the north you live, and it is a dramatic case when you are called Ben Tusting...

What if the team forced Alonso to take that low fuel charge at the start. Maybe he didn´t know a thing bout it and simply Flavio or Pat Symonds tell him to take a short first stint... Alsonso won the next race aswell, and there where no Safety Cars... so he was in a good pace at this point of the seasson, being the champion of the second half of the seasson. He simply didn´t scored too much points at the first half.

 

[Ben Tusting]

:tits: to that David

 

[David Garcia]

Agree :smile-big: :kissing: