Felipe Massa Quotes

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

When I started there was Frank Williams, Flavio Briatore, Ron Dennis, Eddie Jordan and Peter Sauber round the table. These were entrepreneurial team owners, mavericks in some respects.

I think about F1 all the time... it's just my passion.

Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.

I'm asked to drive touring cars, I'm asked to drive IndyCar, but I think Formula One is much more hi-tech and that's where I want to be in as long as I can.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

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

My goal is to be a racer, and I want to be someone who inspires Americans to watch Formula One.

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.

For me, I have a chance to race in F1, a chance I did not think I would have.

Formula One was just cool. I loved racing, all types of racing, but from a young age, Formula One was the noise and everything, and that's what I was drawn to. I already knew when I was younger, the coolest guys are in F1... not that NASCAR drivers aren't cool, but that was always what I had in my head!

I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.

Being team-mate to Michael Schumacher at Benetton in my first year of Formula One was certainly a high pressure situation.

I think I've done a fair bit of my talking on the track over the course of the years, leading up to Formula One and Formula One.

Everyone wants to see racing. This is what F1 is for and this is what it is.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

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

I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.