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Felipe Massa: Why does Formula 1 love retiring Brazilian driver?
Felipe Massa no doubt allowed himself to daydream about how his final Brazilian Grand Prix would play out. Would he score points? Would he make the podium? Would he - whisper it - go out and win the thing? Whatever was swirling in his mind before his the race in his home city of Sao Paulo, the very last thing he would have wanted was a retirement - yet that is exactly what he got. But in a weird and wonderful way, that was perhaps the best thing that could have happened, because what followed was one of the most heart-warming sights ever witnessed in this usually hard-headed and ruthless sport. On lap 48 of 71, Massa's Williams crashed on the pit straight and retired on the spot....
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