Felipe Massa’s New Ferrari Contract: Keeping the Seat Warm for Sebastian Vettel?

Felipe Massa is the luckiest driver in the Formula One paddock at the moment. Quite aside from the miraculous survival and recovery after taking a high speed spring to the head and crashing in Budapest in 2009—an incident that almost claimed his life—Massa now seems to have escaped with his racing life. After a dreadful couple of seasons as Fernando Alonso’s sidekick at Ferrari, Massa looked a certainty to be thrown on the driver scrapheap when his contract expired at the end of the 2012 season. In 2011, Massa failed to finish above fifth and ended the year securing less than half of the points tally of Alonso. The trend looked set to continue as he secured points in only three of the first 10 races of the 2012 season...

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