Felipe Massa Quotes

Let's make it clear: it's Ferrari I'm interested in. Drivers, we've had a lot, some very good, some great, but drivers come and go, while Ferrari remains.

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

I am very proud to be part of this team, and I know that winning with Ferrari will mean more than winning with another team.

I am a racing driver and I am not just some guy who has had an accident and gone back to racing because that is what he enjoys.

After your time passes at Ferrari, you may drive for another team, but you're always a Ferrari driver.

I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.

Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.

Nobody wants to lose Ferrari. And I don't think Ferrari can afford to lose Formula One.

For sure working with Ferrari is a great pleasure. It's a great team, it's a great experience and it's a great dream as well to be there.

I'm hugely proud to be able to work with Ferrari - such a great team and huge amount of history, especially combined with my dad. I'm really proud to be able to be part of it. All our hearts are very red.

When I go to small races in Denmark, it's what I imagined what F1 would have been like back in the 60s and 70s. After the 70s it became a bit different. But 50s and 60s at least, people were only there because they love it.

I am proud to be part of Ferrari's history.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

I think when I got to Sauber you can really feel the difference in personal experience in the team. They've been around for a long time and also the construction team is a lot stronger.

When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.

I built my team with Dale in mind. He lives with me. He's part of who I am because I just appreciated who he was and how he went about things. People worked on his cars at Dale Earnhardt Incorporated before I got there. When Dale would walk by you could just tell people were thinking, 'these are Dale Earnhardt's cars.'

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

Marchionne has a clear vision of what F1 should represent for Ferrari, which is a purist sport that isn't a shopping channel. I would strongly encourage the sport's stakeholders not to provoke him.