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Felipe Massa says eighth 'like a victory' after tough weekend

Felipe Massa has compared his eighth place finish in the Belgian Grand Prix to a race victory, after the Williams team suffered a difficult weekend which saw both cars fail to escape Q1 in qualifying. Massa's weekend started with a first practice crash which also ruled him out of FP2 due to the extensive damage, which meant he completed very little running before qualifying, which made things even harder given he skipped the previous race due to illness. But Massa made up ground in the race and although admitting eighth isn't a particularly great result, he believes the way he drove to move up the order was comparable to winning the race. 'I’m very happy with the race, it was...
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