Felipe Massa has recalled his feelings when hearing of the accidents which recently killed Britain’s Dan Wheldon and Italy’s Marco Simoncelli in the IndyCar Series and MotoGP, respectively. In the case of the latter, his funeral is taking place today.
“At the moment all my thoughts are with the families and friends of Marco Simoncelli and Dan Wheldon,” says Brazilian Massa, who came close to losing his own life when hit by an airborne steel spring in qualifying for the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.
“It seems that, when bad things happen, they come all at once. Because of the time difference between Malaysia and Brazil, I found out about the MotoGP accident as soon as I woke up on Sunday morning, when I was at home in São Paulo. It is unbelievable and I was in a state of shock afterwards.
“Simoncelli was such a nice guy - one of the characters in motorcycle racing and a great talent. Coming so soon after the death of Dan Wheldon, who was a friend of mine, these have been really difficult times and it is just unbelievable that these sad events happened just one week apart.
“Of course, those of us who race, we always know the risk is there - every time you go out on-track. When you are racing, you do not think so much about the risks and you always push hard, sometimes too hard. But all the same, it is still a terrible shock when you see something like that and it reminds you the risk is there.”
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