Felipe Massa won’t hand back retirement F1 gift

Felipe Massa says he will not have to hand back the F1 car gifted to him by Williams for his ultmately premature retirement.Amid his emotional farewell to the sport late last year, the British team promised to give the Brazilian the ‘Massa’-branded car with which he raced at Interlagos. However, Massa’s eventual retirement was short-lived, as he is now returning to Williams for 2017 to replace the Mercedes-bound Valtteri Bottas.

Interlagos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sunday 13 November 2016.
Valtteri Bottas, Williams FW38 Mercedes, leads Felipe Massa, Williams FW38 Mercedes.
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I wish (Bottas) well now that he has this opportunity to go to Mercedes,” Italy’s Corriere dello Sport quotes Massa as saying. “He is going to the team that has won the last three championships and I am sure they will be competitive this year.”

As for his gifted 2016 Williams, meanwhile, Massa got awfully possessive.

“It’s mine. It’s mine,” he said. “I saw it at the factory a few days ago and it still had my name written on it. What happened in the last races was incredible, especially in Brazil. It was a perfect ending, but then things changed and I followed my heart.”.

By GMM