News Details

Massa's style perfect for F1 2017 cars - Smedley

Felipe Massa's aggressive driving style is proving to be a perfect fit for Formula 1's new cars, his team saying he has found a level of comfort missing since his title-challenging 2008 campaign. The Brazilian had a retirement U-turn over the winter after Williams recalled him as replacement for then Mercedes-bound Valtteri Bottas. While Massa has not enjoyed the best of forms in recent campaigns, he has shown some strong pace in pre-season testing, and even topped the times earlier this week. Williams performance chief Rob Smedley believes that one of the explanations for what has happened this week is that the increased downforce and grip of F1's 2017 cars is perfectly in line to what...
Full Story »
8y ago from Motorsport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

It's fair to say Ferrari are Mercedes' closest...

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo says it's a fair assessment to put...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Ricciardo surprised by Williams pace

Red Bull Racing driver Daniel Ricciardo was surprised by the strong...

Vettel tops morning of penultimate testing day at...

Sebastian Vettel topped the morning session on the penultimate day of...
8y ago from F1Technical.net

Mercedes duo wary of Ferrari pace

Lewis Hamilton believes Ferrari 'must' be the favourites heading into...
8y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

FOX acquires 33% stake in Penske Entertainment, IndyCar

Fox Corporation, parent company of broadcast company FOX Sports, has...

Colton Herta: IndyCar at Laguna Seca is a...

IndyCar’s latest visit to Laguna Seca produced rave reviews from...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle Rovanperä hits the jackpot

Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen finally won Rally Finland, laying to...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Three things …

Welcome to Monday. Arsenal are back on familiar ground and will get down...
21m ago from Arseblog.com

Premier League 2025-26 preview No 1: Arsenal

el Arteta enters a pivotal season after finally buying a centre-forward...
6h ago from TheGuardian.com

Saudi Arabia make decision regarding possible summer...

Saudi Arabia have pulled the plug on their pursuit of Real Madrid's...
13h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'He has champion mentality in bucket loads' -...

Former Arsenal academy coach Temisan Williams believes teenage star Max...
13h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.