Felipe Massa Quotes

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

I've never been to a race car race before.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

I can't remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can't remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That's when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I chase checkered flags.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

I think we're the best road racing show in town.

My plan was to put him on a go-kart track when he was six years-old but he was with his mum at a track in Genk and he called me up crying because he saw a younger guy driving on the track. He said to me 'Daddy, I want to do this,' so when I got home from the Canadian GP, I bought him a go-kart and that's how he started.

I would love to do a one-off race somewhere - NASCAR would be awesome.

We are not here for political reasons, we are here for sport, to fight for positions. That's the good thing about Formula One.

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

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

I'm just a race car driver.

A lot of the kids we have coming up through our ranks now have been in stock cars since they were 12 or 13 years old. It's much different. I think you have to pick a path. If you want to race open-wheel cars and do those things, it's probably going to be carts and into an open-wheel series.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it's been a long journey.

F1 is exciting, its values are attractive and it could be an even better family sport.

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

The truth is, when you're at the track, it was an interesting thing about stock car racing as a sport, is you almost get more out of it watching it on TV.

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