Felipe Massa Quotes

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

When you're talking about proper competition, I think Formula E has good competition.

You've got different governments and manufacturers saying, 'Oh, we'll be electric and autonomous by 2030 or whatever.' In my view Formula One is at a crossroads. What is its purpose? We have Formula E, and a lot of manufacturers are morphing into that area. But the emotion, the entertainment, the excitement of those cars just isn't there.

Formula E symbolizes a vision for the future of motorsports and the automotive industry.

I'm very happy to be joining the Venturi Formula E Team and the Formula E championship, which has become a magnificent competition in such a short space of time.

There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

Destiny is always dark.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.

One wild card was yet to be played.

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.