Felipe Massa’s hesitant retirement from Formula One toward the finish of 2016 kept going a matter of weeks and now, given another rent of life at Williams, the well known Brazilian is in no rush to hang up his protective cap once more.
The main South American on the beginning network, from a country of numerous title champs, Massa is now setting out to look past 2017.
The case of Valentino Rossi, the Italian incredible who is driving the MotoGP title at 38, loans would like to the conviction that at scarcely 36 — Massa’s birthday was on Tuesday — despite everything he has time on his side.
“Unfortunately I’m not leading the championship but I’m still there, fighting and doing well,” Massa told Reuters in an interview ahead of Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix.
“I am 100 percent concentrated on this season but… if I can race still at a good level for a good team, then I can do another year.
“If I feel comfortable, if I feel that I am doing a good job, and I am important for so many people as well, why not? I feel fit; I am fitter now than in all of my years in Formula One,” he added.
“I didn’t know how I was going to be in this car so for sure I was training really, really hard and trying also to get a little bit more muscles and I feel really great.”
A year ago, Massa’s Formula One vocation seemed to have achieved the finish of the street after 11 wins, all with Ferrari, from 14 seasons.
He had not won a race since completing title sprinter up in 2008, a blow that won the little Brazilian a lot of admirers for the stoical route in which he acknowledged Lewis Hamilton’s last-pant triumph.
Battling over from close deadly head wounds, subsequent to being hit on the protective cap by a bobbing spring shed from comrade Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, he joined Williams from Ferrari in 2014.
Be that as it may, with the group set on marking Canadian tenderfoot adolescent Lance Stroll and Valtteri Bottas having a year staying on his agreement, Massa was given a passionate goodbye.
At that point recently delegated best on the planet Nico Rosberg reported his stun retirement, Mercedes focused on Bottas as the German’s substitution and Massa was abruptly ready for action like never before.
In the event that some considered him to be a stopgap, a protected combine of hands appreciating a last hurl before clearing a path for a more drawn out term substitution, Massa has different thoughts.
“I was always very clear… I stay in Formula One for a team that I believe is professional, that I can enjoy being with and can be important in as well,” he said. “I still believe I can do it and I am doing it.”
Massa’s importance to Mercedes-powered Williams so far this season has been evident.
He has scored every one of their focuses, two 6th place completes from three races being as much as can be sought after in ordinary conditions given the crevice that isolates champions Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull from the rest.
