(1981-04-25) 25 April 1981 (age 43) São Paulo, Brazil
Formula One World Championship career
Active years
2002, 2004–2017
Teams
Sauber, Ferrari, Williams
Car number
19
Entries
272 (269 starts)
Championships
0 (2nd in 2008)
Wins
11
Podiums
41
Career points
1167
Pole positions
16
Fastest laps
15
First entry
2002 Australian Grand Prix
First win
2006 Turkish Grand Prix
Last win
2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last entry
2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Felipe Massa (Brazilian Portuguese:[fiˈlipiˈmasɐ]; born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series with TMG Racing. He competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between 2002 and 2017, where he scored 11 Grand Prix victories, 41 podiums and finished as championship runner-up in 2008.
Massa started his career in go-karting from the age of eight continuing in national and regional championships for seven years. He moved into Formula Chevrolet, winning the championship. He later moved to the Italian Formula Renault in 2000 and claiming the title along with the European championship for himself. He went into Euro Formula 3000 taking the championship win in 2001.
He started his Formula One career with Sauber in 2002 before joining Scuderia Ferrari as a test driver for 2003. He returned to Sauber for 2004 and 2005 before rejoining Ferrari where he won two races in 2006 including his home Grand Prix becoming the first Brazilian since Ayrton Senna to win the Brazilian Grand Prix. He won three races in 2007, finishing 4th in the Drivers' Championship. He finished second in the 2008 Drivers' World Championship after a long title battle with Lewis Hamilton, winning six races to Hamilton's five. At the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, he was injured by a suspension spring that had fallen off the Brawn GP car of Rubens Barrichello. He was forced to miss the rest of the season but returned in 2010 during which he briefly led the championship. He suffered a dip in form in 2011 scoring no podiums but consistently scoring points. He contributed to Ferrari's Constructors' Championships in 2007 and 2008 and was under contract to race for the team until the end of the 2013 season.[1] On 10 September 2013, he confirmed he would be leaving Ferrari at the end of the 2013 season. He would go on to replace Pastor Maldonado alongside Valtteri Bottas for Williams from 2014.[2]
Massa announced that he would retire from Formula One at the end of the 2016 season.[3]
However, the abrupt retirement of 2016 Formula One Champion Nico Rosberg from Mercedes precipitated the late move of Valtteri Bottas from Williams to Mercedes, leaving a late vacancy at Williams. Massa subsequently postponed his retirement, returning to Williams to partner rookie Lance Stroll for the 2017 season.[4] On 4 November 2017, Massa confirmed that he would be retiring from Formula One at the end of the 2017 season.[5]
After his retirement from Formula One, Massa pursued a career in the FIA's all electric series Formula E. He retired from Formula E at the end of the 2019-20 Championship. He then joined the 2021 season of the Stock Car Brasil series.[6]
^"Ferrari hands Felipe Massa one-year contract extension". autosport.com. Haymarket. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^"Massa to partner Bottas at Williams for 2014". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^"Felipe Massa to quit F1 at end of 2016 season". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
^"Massa and four other race winners who came out of retirement". 21 January 2017.
^Massa, Felipe (4 November 2017). "Thanks for the support love you guys". twitter.com. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
^"Felipe Massa anuncia que vai disputar a Stock Car em 2021". GloboEsporte.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 7 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
FelipeMassa (Brazilian Portuguese: [fiˈlipi ˈmasɐ]; born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro...
the required 5th-place finish to win the championship – from Brazilian FelipeMassa, who had finished the race in first place; his team and family already...
3rd. FelipeMassa took his first pole of the season in Malaysia but Alonso won his first race with McLaren while Hamilton finished second. Massa led the...
the championship runner-up in two seasons. Following the retirement of FelipeMassa after the 2017 season, in 2018 there were no Brazilian drivers entered...
Prost, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Riccardo Patrese, Valtteri Bottas, FelipeMassa and Jacques Villeneuve. Of these drivers, Jones, Rosberg, Mansell, Hill...
and 2020 to 2021, the latter two being due to the COVID-19 pandemic. FelipeMassa and Ferrari are the most successful driver and constructor respectively...
Barrichello with fellow Brazilian FelipeMassa, who moved from Sauber. Massa had previously tested with Ferrari in 2003. Massa was replaced at the newly renamed...
World Championship. Ferrari driver FelipeMassa won the 71-lap race from pole position; this was the last of Massa's 11 Grand Prix wins. Fernando Alonso...
Mille launched the RM 006 FelipeMassa Tourbillon, which weighed 48 grams excluding the strap, in 2005 the 29 g RM 009 FelipeMassa Tourbillon., in 2007 the...
título em 2023, Rafael Suzuki vai para a equipe TMG, dividindo boxes com FelipeMassa". motorsport.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-02-08...
Formula One, was launched in Maranello, and online, on 28 January 2010. FelipeMassa was due to undertake the car's first shakedown later the same day at...
overtook Hamilton. Mark Webber attempted to pass FelipeMassa, but the two made contact, pitching Massa into a spin. Webber continued with a broken front...
claimed second in his Williams followed by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. FelipeMassa of Ferrari started from pole position, but finished out of the points...
replaced Alonso for the race. Paul di Resta replaced FelipeMassa for the Hungarian Grand Prix after Massa was taken ill after Free Practice. Jolyon Palmer...
to become World Champion again, finished in second place. Brazilian FelipeMassa took pole position and led the race from start to finish to get the second...
in the 2014 Formula One season. It was driven by Valtteri Bottas and FelipeMassa, who replaced the departing Pastor Maldonado. The FW36 was the first...
Sauber drivers were Jean Alesi, 2008 Drivers' Championship runner-up FelipeMassa, Johnny Herbert, and 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve. Two former...
F2007. The 248 model was driven by race drivers Michael Schumacher and FelipeMassa. The 248 F1 was the first Ferrari since the F1-2000 not to wear the number...
competed every year. It was first launched online on 12 January 2009, and FelipeMassa undertook the debut run of the car with a shakedown at Mugello later...
was driven by two time World Champion Fernando Alonso and his teammate FelipeMassa in his final season at the Scuderia. The chassis was designed by Pat...
an injury during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari's FelipeMassa missed the remainder of the season. He was replaced for the next two...
Prix. Bottas was retained by Williams for the 2014 season, partnering FelipeMassa who was signed from Ferrari. At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix...
fastest time set by Ferrari's FelipeMassa. The rain dried up for the afternoon session which saw the two Ferraris of Massa and Kimi Räikkönen first and...
1996–2006 1996 European Grand Prix 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix Brazil FelipeMassa 11 2002, 2004–2017 2006 Turkish Grand Prix 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix...
FelipeMassa's race engineer. Almost immediately Massa's form improved; his previously common errors became less frequent, and in August 2006, Massa took...
2005 and 2006, were won by Fernando Alonso, racing for Renault, and FelipeMassa won the 2007 and 2008 editions of the race for Ferrari. Jenson Button...
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