Ferrari, Felipe Massa play down Rob Smedley’s Singapore GP instructions – Formula 1 news
Ferrari have denied their connection with the race edit video that was recently uploaded on the official website of Formula 1 that had Rob Smedley’s conversation with Felipe Massa in which the latter is heard telling Massa to spoil McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton’s
race.
Ferrari have come forward to play down all accusations and have clarified on their official website. Ferrari said that the words the team engineer Rob Smedley used may not have been the most the appropriate set of words to use however, the underlying intention
was not at all “malicious.”
The team has said that Smedley’s conversation with Massa at lap 11 has nothing to do with the accident that occurred between him and the Brit from McLaren.
The Ferrari statement reads, “It would not have taken much to avoid this misunderstanding, but that's what happens in the frenetic world of Formula 1. When all is said done, as the Bard of Avon himself might have put it, it was all much ado about nothing.”
Soon afterwards Felipe Massa, the Ferrari driver himself came forward and clarified that his conversation with Smedley has no connection with the collision that took place in the Singapore GP.
Massa said, “Apart from the fact that I don't recall what Rob said, I don't think there's any value in stirring up trouble now and trying to link this with the subsequent contact with Hamilton: they are two separate moments and they have nothing to do with
each other.”
Felipe Massa wants this issue to clear up once and for all and wants to make sure that there remains no confusion whatsoever between him and Hamilton with regards to this matter.
Massa does not want any kind of unnecessary misunderstanding to be there and wants to put an end to it as he feels that such issues should not be highlighted so much in the media. He said it is better that the teams and drivers sit down and resolve them
between them.
Let’s see how both of the drivers fare in the upcoming Grand Prix at Suzuka, Japan.
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