Felipe Massa Quotes

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

Nobody in Formula One has won so many titles, so many races as I did. So Ferrari for me is crucial; it is more than important.

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

I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion. Then I stayed with the team in GP2 Asia Series, and again, I became Champion. Then the first year of GP2 was really great. I was P4 at the end of the season, which was a fantastic result.

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.

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

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

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.

When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.

I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

Ayrton Senna was my favorite driver who I wanted to be like.

I feel that I'm in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

You don't get that opportunity everyday to do Le Mans with Porsche, a brand that has so much tradition and history. So I just grabbed the opportunity while it was there.

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

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

I've been fortunate to drive for some of the greats in racing.

In my time in F1, I never doubted I could be successful. I sadly never made it on to the starting grid of an F1 race, but during testing I completed a race distance.

I think 19 years, what I've done, you see nowadays people get there with money and so on, but they last one or two years. To be able to have lasted that long, it's still impressive for me. I had a blast being a Formula 1 driver.

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.

Being compared to the best driver in F1 history is the goal you want to achieve, and to have that as my idol and father is very special.

I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.

Red Bull doesn't get the credit it deserves. Neither Buemi nor Alguersuari would have progressed through the junior ranks - let's not forget Alguersuari won the British Formula Three championship - without the support.

I won Formula Four. I went to New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series. I won the F3 European championship in 2016.

I think I've benefitted a lot of times from having my dad as a racing driver and I don't think I would be here if it wasn't for him because McLaren probably wouldn't have looked at me.