F1Weekly Podcast # 1029
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NASIR RETURNS FROM THE DAYTONA 24 HOURS WITH SOME FARM FRESH INTERVIEWS! MOTORSPORTS MONDIAL THE PROVERBIAL FULLY LOADED BURRITO INCLUDING, NEW SEGMENT FROM THE ORIGINAL “JB” DOWN UNDER, BOX BOX BOX…THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEWS STARTS WITH YOUNG LIAM NACHAWATI A KARTING SENSATION. THE FEATURE INTERVIEW…FELIPE MASSA! OBRIGADO.
Felipe Massa narrowly lost the 2008 world championship to Lewis Hamilton despite winning the final race of the season on home ground in Brazil. Hamilton’s last-pass pass for fifth place denied Massa a crown his team briefly thought he had won.
It was a far cry from his hair-raising debut at Sauber six years which included flashes of speed and more than a few moments of youthful exuberance. He spent a year on the sidelines before returning in 2004 as a much more accomplished racer. Two years later he landed a place at Ferrari and became an F1 race-winner.
2001 Formula One Testing Mugello, Italy. 19th September 2001. Euro F3000 champ Felipe Massa tests the Sauber Petronas C20, for the first time. World Copyright: Photo 4/ LAT Photographic.
Massa arrived in F1 from Italian F3000 where he won the 2001 championship with six wins from eight races. The year before he clinched the Italian and European Formula Renault championships, taking the former despite missing two races.
Massa was the European Formula 3000 champion when Peter Sauber hired him for 2002 to replace McLaren-bound Kimi Raikkonen. An error-strewn first season for the 20-year-old culminated in a collision with Pedro de la Rosa at the Italian Grand Prix which earned him a one-race suspension. Sauber replaced him with Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the next round, a place Frentzen kept throughout 2003 while Massa spent a year on the sidelines.