You don't believe in Felipe Massa? Read this and think about it again!

I was asked on Twitter to defend Felipe Massa on Badger GP’s article. And I personally think I did a great job. My honest opinion. Here’s what I wrote:

Where should I start. As I am Massa’s fan, I will always support him and stay behind him no matter what happens. First of all, I think his accident haven’t changed him at all. I just can’t believe. Just look at back to 2010 season - he had perfect start for the year as he was leading the championship after 2 firsts races, by finishing on podium at Bahrain and at Australia. And well, then he had some downs. But at German GP, he had a great start and was leading the race. That race was held exactly one year after Felipe’s accident and it would have been so amazing to see him back winning, after that kind of horrible accident from he survived. In my opinion, only the strongest people can survive something like that. He was surprisingly fastly back in F1, in the action. I can’t stop imagining what would it have been if Felipe would have won that race. But Ferrari made the most sick thing ever. They made the team order everyone in the F1 World knows very well. This totally ended my respect for Ferrari. Every single peace of my respect. I never supported Alonso in my life either, but what Ferrari did is unacceptable.

After that, Felipe got couple podiums. Then in 2011, no podiums. He had so much bad luck, team failed on his pitstops, but also they used Felipe as a tester. Sometimes it seems for me that Ferrari forgets Felipe totally. Seems like they have only one driver and that’s Alonso. I feel like Felipe doesn’t have a real possibility. I heard a thing that Felipe’s new chassis for last weekend was actually meant to be on Alonso’s car since Spain, but the team noticed it wasn’t that good so they didn’t give it to Alonso and gave it to Felipe instead. Felipe felt positive about it and he seemed a bit faster with it but still there was gap to Alonso. And well, it’s true Felipe has now finished first two races without points, but so he did in 2008, too. And then he lost the championship by one single point. Not many things needed to go in different way and Felipe could have been the champion, clearly. But things just happened. Singapore crash gate, Hungarian GP engine failure… and of course Brazilian GP’s last lap, but that wouldn’t have mattered if Singapore or / and Hungary didn’t go that way. And well, at Malaysia Felipe did one little mistake and it was unbelieveable to see how wrong things went after that. Felipe has too much pressure now. Of course pressure is a good thing sometimes but Felipe has too much of it in my opinion. The media, and most of all F1 fans don’t believe in him. But I am one of those rare persons who still do. I always will. Felipe needs a team with support. In Ferrari, he doesn’t gain it anymore as he used to gain in the past years, It’s all about Alonso now. I want Felipe to change team that he could be free again and be totally supported. No matter if it’s not one of the big 3 (Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes). I just want he is happy and can do his best again. But if Felipe needs to show that he is still fast, Ferrari needs to support him REALLY. Not just say that they support him. They need to make action, too. But in my opinion Felipe doesn’t need to prove anything. He already did it in the past. The end.

The same continues. Still.

Okay so I just saw something which made me so angry.

And it made me to think about things. Again. Because I hate any kind of unfairness. And specially how unfair almost everyone is to Felipe Massa.

Let’s go back to year 2008. I just want to remind that Felipe was the strongest driver on the grid. He made only several mistakes during the season: at the two first GP’s, Australia and Malaysia. And then later at the rainy Silverstone. But his season was perfect. He couldn’t do anything better. He would have been champion without World’s worse luck. Not talking about Brazil because Brazilian GP wouldn’t have mattered. Because Felipe was clearly going to win race at Singapore, but then happens the mafia planned crash. Which took cars to the pit and which made Ferrari not to use their automatical light system so they had to change green light manually. They made the light green too early and.. you know what happened. There goes 10 points and the victory. Then at Hungary, great start, great race, victory on his hands… then engine failure 3 laps before the end and Heikki Kovalainen takes the prize.

I know it’s stupid to continue this again and again and again but the fact is that if Felipe could have won those races, he would have been clear champion and have like 20 points more than Hamilton had. And results of Brazilian GP wouldn’t have done anything to take away his title. What I am looking with this all is that everyone would respect and treat Felipe in different way if he would be World Champion. He isn’t - and people are talking so much shit about him. Specially fans of that one driver. That one driver that crashed into Felipe many times last year. And most of times it was fault of that one driver and not Felipe’s. Couple times they both were at wrong place at wrong time. If Felipe would be champion, then Hamilton wouldn’t. How would he get treated then? Yeah, think about that.

F1 "Silly Season"

We finally know all the drivers for 2012, after long waiting. I think “silly season” is definitely right name for it, because there was lot of rumours going on about everything, and in the end some driver seats were lost and gained with huge surprises to the fans of F1.

I’m not personally happy with all the decisions that some teams made. Of course, they do what they think it’s their best. But here’s some speculations of I would have done with the seats this year. I’m mostly talking about those drivers who got replaced and those who replaced them.

Here’s some names: Rubens Barrichello, Jaime Alguersuari, Vitali Petrov, Sebastien Buemi, Jerome D’Ambrosio, Adrian Sutil. None of these six drivers who were on the grid last year will be racing in Formula 1 this year. That’s a huge shame! SIX DRIVERS! That’s a huge number, and most of these drivers were replaced by drivers who had some $$$ with them to bring.

I’m not surprised what happened to D’Ambrosio and Sutil if I am honest. D’Ambrosio is still young and it’s hard to impress in a car like Marussia is. He had a contract for 2012, but Marussia suddenly hired Charles Pic and D’Ambrosio was without seat. That’s very unfair, but this is F1. You can’t be sure about anything, we have seen this too many times. I would have understood the change if Pic would be a special talent, but I don’t see anything special on Pic compared to D’Ambrosio. Pic might be handsome for some girls, but I am talking about driving skills, WHICH IS THE ONLY THING THAT SHOULD MATTER IN FORMULA 1.

And to Sutil’s situation. We all know what happened. I don’t know how I should feel about him, but it’s another shame, but he kinda caused it himself. I think teams were aware to hire him. Because if he would have got into jail during the season, that means that team would have had to take someone to replace Sutil. I don’t have anything against Sutil, but I think his career at least at Formula 1 is kinda over.

Force India took Nico Hülkenberg to replace Adrian Sutil, and I think it was a right decision. I was shocked after 2010 when Hülkenberg was left without seat even he took a pole position at Brazil with poor Williams. I hope that Nico can really show his talent with Force India now.

Then, Rubens Barrichello. A loved, very wonderful personality, great Brazilian veteran driver wanted to continue in F1. But he couldn’t do. He still had motivation and everything, so I think it’s wrong that money won this time. Bruno Senna’s cash won for the seat at Williams, and Maldonado was confirmed there already, too. There were still other seats free, but things went as it went. That’s sad, and I hope all the best for Rubinho. Seems like he’s getting into Indy Car, and if he does, I hope lot of success for him!

Then, there could have been seat at HRT. If I would be a racing driver, I wouldn’t go there, because that team basicly destroys your career. They said from HRT that they aren’t interested in another “old driver that is coming to the end of his career”. That’s how they spoke about rumours that Barrichello might come there. But I just can’t understand why did they hire Pedro De la Rosa. If I would have choosen between De la Rosa and Barrichello, I would have chosen Barrichello. Rubens has so many years of experience of racing in F1 and it could have helped HRT to take step forward. De la Rosa has experience too, but mainly as a test driver for many many years. Well - that’s their decision and I have to deal with that.

Another decision from HRT that I can’t understand is that they took Narain Karthikeyan back as their racing driver. Maybe Narain had some cash to give. I’m like 90% sure that Karthikeyan will be replaced by someone else during some part of the season. Nothing against, sorry to sound rude, but that’s the way it really is and I think all of you know it.

Then to Lotus. They took Kimi Räikkönen and I think it was a great decision. It’s a great thing for F1, and Kimi is back there where he belongs to. Lotus hired Romain Grosjean as Kimi’s team mate, so Vitali Petrov was dropped out even Petrov had a contract for 2012, like D’Ambrosio had. But I think somehow it was right, as Grosjean have had a touch with the team for very long. Also, Grosjean was GP2 champion, and it’s almost for sure that GP2 champion will get a seat from F1. And I think the French man deserves second change, after he came to the team when it still was Renault, to replace Nelson Piquet Jr. and to be Fernando Alonso’s team mate as a rookie. I think it’s most horrible situation to be a rookie driver and get as Alonso’s team mate. We know what happened to Piquet. What a shame for him, really.. I believe he would have had talent and things could have been different. But what happened, happened, and we cannot change it. Shame for Petrov - he’s got my respect as he kept Alonso behind at Abu Dhabi 2010…

And then, the last and most shocking. Toro Rosso. Both their drivers, Alguersuari and Buemi (Suari specially) had a good season and both could have deserved to continue in F1, in my point of view. But they dropped both these drivers, and bring in Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne. Ricciardo was kinda expected, but that both drivers will be replaced… I think nobody really expected that. And it ended like Alguersuari was left without racing seat or even a reserve driver seat. Buemi at least got Red Bull / Toro Rosso reserve driver seat, but I think he expected for more. Helmut Marko said that Toro Rosso is made to help young drivers get through to the F1, but the fact is, clear and pure fact is, that the only driver so far who got the real possibility with STR was Sebastian Vettel. All other drivers who have been driving with Toro Rosso through the years have been replaced sooner or later, and in the end almost all of those drivers left F1. Vitantonio Liuzzi was the only one to get back into F1 - but then his career kinda ended now thanks to HRT. Alguersuari is still young guy, so I hope he will get a second change very soon. It would be a big shame if we can’t see him in F1 anymore.

So, we will still see Buemi and D’Ambrosio around, as reserve drivers. But we have to say bye at least for one season to guys like Rubens Barrichello, Vitali Petrov, Jaime Alguersuari, Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi.

P.S. Caterham should get rid of Trulli. He complains about everything and doesn’t seem to be motivated anymore.. they could replace him to like Barrichello for example - to veteran, who still has motivation and love to racing. He truly shows it. Trulli doesn’t.

Looking forward to 2012 season

I'm sorry I haven't been so active with my blog in the last few days, I have been little bit busy with university and other stuff lately but now I am back here and gonna write you little bit about my views about 2011 season which ended couple weeks ago and also I'm going to analyze little bit what's in front at 2012 :)

Season ended with Sebastian Vettel as a clear champion, congratulations for him. He's now double world champion and also the youngest double world champion around. In my point of view 2011 season wasn't very entertaining one. I enjoyed much more the first part of the season than the second part. In first part of the season we saw more interesting races and much more action, because on the first races Pirelli gave teams tyres which lost it's best quality in few lap. Because of low grip of tyres, we saw lot of action when drivers with better grip of tyres were able to attack drivers with low grip of tyres and so on. Everyone was on the situation once the tyre grip was low. Also the DRS made more action during te first part of the season than on the second part.

What we remember about 2011 season in general? Vettel was unbeatable during the whole season, and even team mate Webber was struggling to catch Vettel. In qualifyings Webber were sometimes close, even faster than Seb, but for some reasons the race pace was never igual to Vettel. Other thing which everyone will remember is how Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa had their moments on the track. In general Hamilton had problems this season, he's struggling cause team mate Jenson Button is strong, and also his personal life affected very much. In my point of view Hamilton behaved in a wrong way very often. "Maybe it's because I'm black" and other comments like that were ridiculous. Hamilton still needs to learn to accept he made a mistake himself and apologize for that. And other McLaren driver Jenson Button showed again his greatness. He was amazing this season, even Vettel won the most, but what Button was able to do on the track impressed me again and again. GP of Canada was great show thanks to Button, and it was definitely the best race of the year in my point of view. And what about Ferrari drivers? I think Alonso did nothing special this year. He got one victory. And in too many races Alonso was played in front of Massa by the team. And everyone says that Massa had dissapointing season. Well yeah in the view of results maybe, but he had tons of bad luck, team playing with him, and Hamilton crashing into him. I think Felipe could have been on podium many times without all these things happening. Team made huge number of mistakes on Massa's pitstops, but none on Alonso's pitstops. Sorry but it's just too easy to see through. It's sad to see how Massa is just a toy in the team because Alonso wants to be number one, always. I just hope 2012 will be much better for Massa, I hope it with my full heart and soul because he really deserves one.

Mercedes were clearly the team behind top 3 teams. But after Mercedes, it was close fight, In some races it was Force India to be 5th best team, in some races it was Toro Rosso, some races it was LRGP or Sauber.. It was nice to see close fight in the middle field. Williams team sadly was another dissapointment this year, with not so good car. And something positive from the back, Team Lotus was able to improve. They were on their own field, much time diffrence to the back but also some into front. But in races Heikki Kovalainen was very strong this season and was able to try to fight with guys with better cars - it was so great to see and I think Team Lotus will be able to score points with new package and also new team name - Caterham. Also, surprisingly, I saw something positive o HRT. For example in Brazilian GP qualifying, both HRT's were in front of Marussia Virgins. I think maybe Virgin will have some difficulties at 2012? Because also HRT has new owner and so on, and Virgin moves away from Marussia project. Let's see what's the situation of our "slow teams" next year. I am sure Team Lotus (Caterham) isn't listed to the slow teams next year.

And well, about DRS and new tyres. I am not sure is the DRS really needed. DRS made overtaking possible, yeah. But in some places it just seemed to be too easy to overtake with DRS, it was impossible to try to fight for positions when the driver with open DRS was just too fast. But DRS also give some action. I am not sure what to think about it but.. why should DRS be used? Is there anything like this in other motorsport series to make overtaking easier? No there isn't. DRS is little bit something that breaks the rule of real overtaking and real racing. The cars have KERS, and FIA ordered tyres from Pirelli which loose grip easily. Isn't these tyres enough to make the action which is wanted? During the season Pirelli changed the tyres to stay for longer, and there wasn't so much problems on fast grip loosing than at hte beginning of the season. I think it was wrong decision. The tyres gave us so much to be excited about in the first couple races. And also on some tracks FIA failed to choose a right place for DRS or made the DRS zone too short that there was not much use for it. So what I think is that we should forget whole DRS thing, let Pirelli do tyres with fast grip loose, and let drivers race and fight on the track.

And 2012 - what to expect? I am waiting for the season so much and it's so hard to spend these months wihtout F1. We have Kimi Räikkönen back with LRGP and so on. It will be nive to see what Kimi can do, but I think he will not be on the pace from the first race. Aldo depends what kind of car LRGP will have next year. It's hard to analyze anything yet because we have no idea what kind of cars teams will have. The rules will not change much, but because of all these blown diffuser etc. are banned for next season, I think others will be closer to Red Bull next year. Also of course there will be new inventions which might get banned during the season or which all teams will copy to their cars. But in general I have a feeling that 2012 season will be more interesting and will have more action than 2011. Of course I really really hope there will be real fights for the wins, and not just like one man starts from the pole and wins the race easily. Let's see. Now we will have this winter break, some cars will be released at January and so on. We don't even know yet all drivers of 2012 and whoäs gonna drive where. There's still lot of questions on the air, but slowly we will get those answers we want.

What about Finnish GP?

There has been lot of talk about the number of GP's in Formula 1 since we heard there will be two races at USA. There are countries who have and have had two races. For example in Italy there was Monza and Imola (San Marino) and Imola was dropped. There was two races in Germany, Nürburgring and Hockenheim, and now it has been changed like every other year there's race at Nürburgring and at every other at Hockenheim. Now there's two GP's at Spain, Barcelona, with name of Spanish GP and Valencia, with the name of European GP. Valencia is nice looking place but the track hasn't given much action on the races so most of F1 fans would like to drop the new track away from the calender. And Barcelona is a track where F1 has been for so many years and everybody knows the track very well. Also there's rumours French GP would be back in F1 and it would be every other year and Spa every other year. And now, as we all know, USA will be back in F1 calender at 2012, but at 2013 there will be anoter race at USA too, at New York. This has been made fans thinking about the calendar kinda lot because is there much space for new races? I think it's bit unfair when one country can have two races. And isn't Russia coming to calender too? There's just no space for so many new races.

And when thinking about F1 races around the world, there comes one question. F1 goes places like Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, which aren't much of motorsport countries. And then there's small country here in the North Europe. Finland. We have had three champions in F1 history: Keijo "Keke" Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Räikkönen. Had other known names too like Mika Salo and Jyrki Järvilehto (known as JJ Lehto). And right now we have Heikki Kovalainen, and sooner or later Valtteri Bottas will join F1, too.

We have great history in F1 and we don't have a race track here. Fact is we don't have any big tracks here where to have international races. We are a small country with around 5 million people, and on places where F1 goes there can be much more people in one city than in whole Finland. But if I would start to think about what if there would be a race track build around. Basicly, the track should be here in southern Finland, close to Helsinki because Helsinki is our biggest city, our capital, and the city which is most get used to visitors from other countries. But where to build the track then? There can't be a street circuit at Helsinki because roads there are made with some stones ages ago, which is not good for racing cars. So there should be good asphalt made, but it takes away something from the city's history. Plan Helsinki street circuit failed.

More possibilities around Helsinki? Well, Helsinki area has 3 big cities, including Helsinki there's Espoo and Vantaa which are big cities too. All these 3 cities are very close to each others. I don't know much about the Helsinki area but I think there's not really much places around where would be possible to build about over 5 kilometres long race track. But there's Helsinki-Vantaa airport which is the main airport of our country, so maybe somewhere close to the airport could be good? Maybe, but, again a question, how far would hotels of drivers and teams be? I don't know exactly but the distance might not be best possible.

If F1 track is build somewhere else around Finland, then comes some trouble. Basicly F1 races take much visitors. We are small country and many of us love sports, specially motorsports, but how many of us could actually go and see the race? There would come so many tourists from other countries to see the Finnish GP. Where to suddenly put all those people when the track is somewhere else than around Helsinki? For example I know that my city has 3 or 4 hotels and that really isn't enough. In Helsinki there is many hotels but could the city be able to handle so many tourists at the same time? I don't think so.

Also the Finnish GP should be at May, June, July, or August. That's the summer time here in Finland and most people are on summerholidays. But that's not the main reason. Other times of the year would be just basicly too cold for F1 which is get used to air temperatures which are mostly over 20 degrees. At Septempber it starts to be more cold and more rainy. Then could be F1 too but weather would be too boring. And then since November and December until March or April there can be snow around which isn't F1 thing. Also, when there would be Finnish GP at summer, people would realize it's not all about snow and cold here as some people think. Here can be over 30 degrees at summer, it's totally possible. Even it's likely to be around 25 but then people would see...

So I was thinking too, if I would imagine there is a F1 track in Finland, I started to think about those people who have came to watch F1. I can imagine warm summer day, about 40 year old fat men there on the grandstands with glass of beer and not wearing a shirt. Yuck that could be just... ughh.. But just too Finnish. I don't like that at all but that would be just too Finnish that I can imagine it.

I think it would be great if there would be F1 GP at Finland, but there should be many sollutions found before making a track here. But making a track here would bring here other international racing series too, not just F1. Rally is still a big thing here even we are great F1 lovers here too. We just have rally roads here in natural, they don't need to be made. But a race track needs to be made if we want to be a perfect racing country. But if ntelligent people get together, find a good place for the track, money for development and gets everything together, it could be a good idea which I definitely would support.

Sad week for motorsport

I'm feeling very sad. I know all the motorsport fans are feeling sad. This week just has been very hard week for us. First, 16th October Dan Wheldon looses his life at fatal and huge accident at Indy Car race. There was huge and horrible crash where was 15 cars on the same accident. Dan Wheldon was 33 years old and had two kids. He was a great driver and had already some big victories. Dan's death and the horrible accident stopped the motorsport World on that Sunday. I heard about the accident on the day it happened and heard Dan was taken to hospital. I was feeling horrible on that evening because I had a feeling he might not survive, but we all racing fans prayed togehter.. but later we heard the news nobody wanted to hear...

In one week we slowly got over what happened to Dan. But then, today came. I took my laptop just to check Twitter fastly. First tweet I saw was "RIP Marco Simoncelli". I didn't want to believe it was true. But I had to. My eyes turned to tears. I just can't accept this. 24 years old young MotoGP talent was dead. I knew he is a great driver. I followed MotoGP still couple years ago when it still was free at Finnish television and I liked Simoncelli. I have no bad memory about him. And on Simoncelli's accident, he was so unlucky.. on his situation there was nothing to do..

On these two very sad moments we all motorsport fans have been together. This has touched everybody who loves motorsport, even those who don't follow MotoGP or Indy Car. One thing is sure - Indy Car safety must get better! They should look at Formula One. There the safety level is great. Of course in motorsport there's always risks no matter how safe the series would be, you can't know what's going to happen next. And drivers know the risk. But they drive because they love racing.

I am out of words, but I can't describe how sad I feel about loosing two great motorsport stars. I don't even watch Indy Car really but Dan's death touched me very much, I cried and it's not a secret, I cried for Simoncelli too.. We are all praying for families of Marco and Dan, hope them to stay strong. All racing fans are together on these situations, no matter what serie we watch, no matter what team or driver we support. This touches everybody.

I hope Dan and Marco are happy at heaven, and can meet great legends like Senna, and race with them...

RIP Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli, you are on thoughts of every motorsport fan in the World... You will be never forgotten!

Respect

I just have to do this. Today I got enough. This blog text will tell my views about Felipe Massa and about being his fan. I am doing this to hopefully make people understand why I am his fan. I have got so much critism because I am his fan and I don't understand it. The situation of Massa fans today is exactly same as the situation of Felipe himself. It seems like today you have to support only those drivers who win. Everybody has their good and bad times, and when a driver has a bad time of his career, should fans stop supporting him? No way! Real fans support their favorite driver no matter what. I think it's ridiculous to stop supporting a driver who maybe haven't won for sometime. There's somebody called Lewis Hamilton who is not having best time of his career right now, and so is Felipe Massa. But nobody is critical to Hamilton fans. Hamilton himself got critism, also Massa gets. But for some reason Massa fans get the same critism as the driver himself. Do people seriously think you can turn our heads? We have our reasons to be his fan. I still believe in him, no matter what. I am stubborn enough to support him and I am so damn proud of it! Nobody can turn my head even people so hardly try me to leave him. Felipe needs support of real fans and he believes in us, he has only few real fans anymore, but we are strong, we never give up!

Massa is on hard situation at Ferrari. The team doesn't support him anymore and it makes his feelings down. He is not doing his best and big reason is the Ferrari team and how Alonso is suddenly number one on the team. Ferrari have forgotten everything Felipe has done for them in the past years. Many people say Massa isn't strong anymore after his accident. I don't believe in that, not at all. What did Massa do after his accident? Yes. He took two podium places and lead the championship. To make you notice, this was THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON. At the start everything seemed to be okay so Felipe did well too, he thought the team will support both drivers like they did when Massa and Räikkönen were team mates. But the truth started to come out slowly. That day turned everything upside down. I never forgive that day. On that day I started to hate Ferrari team. I lost all the respect I had. German GP 2010. Felipe Massa was going to win a race, clearly, and one year after his horrifying accident. He was going to show to everybody he is back. He was going to do what we all wanted to say, back to victories after recovering from accident. And then the shit happens. Fernando Alonso thinks is ridiculous that Massa was clearly faster than him and was leading the race. Alonso just couldn't accept Massa is in fact faster than him. He starts to cry in radio it's ridiculous. Most ridiculous is Alonso himself!! So sure the team wants that mr. cheater is happy, so they give a team order to Massa. At the end Massa listened the order, even he didn't want to. I 100% understand his feeling. I can imagine how did he feel... It just breaks my heart.. I don't want to remember that day. Since that day Felipe become just a play button of the Scuderia Santander Fernando Ferrari. Since that day Felipe lost his trust to the team. He started to realize the team isn't same as before. The only care about Fernando. AFTER ONE YEAR OF ACCIDENT THEY GIVE A TEAM ORDER LIKE THIS. That is just heartless!

Now comes the part that some are asking: "Why did he listen to team order, why didn't he leave the team bla bla". Well, the answer is easy. He's a racing driver and if he would leave the team, where would he have gone then? There was no free places at the top teams. And we all know, Felipe is honest and fair person. So he stays until the end his contract at Ferrari, because at the end he is loyal and ther's no places at the top teams. Now all are saying he could go to smaller team, but is that what Massa wants? No it isn't. He knows he can still win and he is a top driver no matter what people say. He wants a car with he can win. Atm Ferrari is the best he can have, but there he is not allowed to win. His fans would like to see him anywhere else, but he just can't leave yet. I just hope he leaves the team after 2012, and finds himself from Red Bull, McLaren or Mercedes for 2013. Any of them is way better than Ferrari. And that one who comes to Ferrari after Massa will fail his career. It's a fact. Nobody is allowed to fight against Alonso. People can talk about Hamilton or Vettel or coming to Ferrari, but fact is, that will not happen.

2011 has been a bad year for Felipe, yes. But I understand him. I think his selfconfidence is very down... he needs a good result.. but I know it's so bad to race when you know you have no support from your own team. Felipe is very emotional person.. I remember how I read an article at the beginning of 2008 that Felipe Massa can't be World Champion of Formula One because of his too nice personality. That has been proven to be bull shit, because Massa lost the title by one point at 2008. To bad luck and Alonso's cheatment at Singapore. So saying that Massa can't win championship because of his personality doesn't make sense. And at 2008 he had a great support of the team. Everything was okay.

One thing also I have noticed and heard also from trustable source that Massa's mom doesn't like Alonso. Nowdays we can only see Massa's dad and his brother at Ferrari garage. Ana Elena Massa is not going there because she can't stand Alonso. She stays away to avoid mess at the team. I think it's hard for Felioe's dad and brother too to be there....

I become Massa's fan at 2006, just before he took his first podium. I noticed he was improving his performance, becoming better and better. 2006 season really was season of changes for me, because I supported Kimi Räikkönen before that. I was tired to Kimi and McLaren which always had issues. Championship fight was between Alonso and Schumacher. And as most people know I have always hated Alonso. So I supported Schumacher to be champion. And on supporting Schumacher I noticed his team mate Felipe, and soon Felipe took his first podim which made me his fan. I loved so much how emotional and happy was Felipe about his first podium, it was simply so amazing to see.. soon after that he took his first pole position and victory at Turkey which made me so proud, Felipe made tears to my eyes, I cried when he won.. again he was so emotional, it was so great, I just cannot describe with words how did it feel... And then another emotional victory at his home GP, at Brazil. This all made me his great fan, and I will never stop.

I have to thank Felipe Massa for many things. I totally changed as a person too thanks to him... Thanks to him, I started to love Brazil as a country, got more interested about the people, language... I feel like I am much better person than before, I feel like I am more open, way more happy, everything! I feel so big love to Brazil and have met great people from Brazil who mean so much to me. I will support Felipe forever, he can be sure about it. He knows I support him. I will fight for him, always. I never met him, but I hope someday I can... He is great personality, a great driver... everybody has ups and downs. Felipe is having a very hard part now but I feel deep in my heart everything will turn to better... we just need to believe in little positive things. Felipe is loosing fans which is very sad and unfair fact. He have also had very bad luck in last races. This all makes me sad because he haven't deserved things like that. He deserves much better.

Feels like almost everyone have forgot what Felipe Massa can do. He can win races, he can make great overtakes, he can be champion. But only if he has the support. And when the support of team is almost nothing, when he is loosing fans, when a old fan of his goes in front of his eyes and says horrible things... (yes. This has really happened. Heard from trustable source and knowing this just breaks my heart). There are soome great true fans left and we have done things for Felipe he has been very happy about, we want to give him a reason to smile. We want to make him happy. We want to make him know we support him no matter what he does.

And, people should not talk bad to other people just because they are supporting different drivers. It's not fair because we all have our views. Sometimes it's very hard to be Massa's fan nowdays, but, there wouldn't be any challange on it if everything would be easy. I am ready to face and fight against anyone who comes in front of me to tell me something that doesn't make sense. I am not a person who loves to fight, but, I always fight for those who I care about. Family, friends, or a special F1 driver. I will be on the side of important people, specially if they face something which is not fair. Ferrari team often puts words to mouths of their drivers, I know Felipe can't tell his real feelings... I can feel what he feels. I know he doesn't always tell the truth for media. I just can see it all from his eyes. I can read everything.

My wish is that F1 fans would let others to support who they want and stop to be critical to people who doesn't support same driver as they do. There are people who support drivers of Hispania, Virgin, Lotus, which defenately are not winning. I respect that very much. It's something great that some people can support drives who can't even score points. It's the reason why those drivers want to come out from the garage.

Back to Felipe.. I could write so much about him. But if I would write everything, this text just would be endless. There still will be many texts about him from me, you can be sure about it, for sure! And just one thing. Never under rate Massa fans. We are stronger than people can believe. For us there has happened so many great things thanks to being his fan. We don't like to talk about those things on public. Those are things that we, his fans, just share together. And we have a feeling things like that haven't happened to fans of other drivers. That makes us more proud. For fans of other drivers we might look like group of ridiculous fan girls and fan boys, but the truth isn't that. We know more than many others. Why don't we share those things? Because those who are not real fans are not worth to hear those things. Deal with it.

Felipe Massa, seus fãs verdadeiros estará sempre com você, sempre.... Você pode confiar nos,

nós nunca deixá você, Felipe Massa do Brasil...