By Jamie Makin
July 6 2005

Felipe Massa is a driver who is very happy to see that the British Grand Prix at Silverstone has been saved. Although he has not been able to score points there in the past, he will fight hard to change that this weekend.

Felipe Massa (Car #12):

"I love Silverstone, and the challenge that it represents. To me it is a driver’s circuit, up there with Spa or Suzuka. It has some very high-speed sections, and the first part of the track is especially nice. These are very important corners which influence the lap time a great deal; if you have too much understeer it can be horrible there and will grain the front tyres so much they are destroyed before the end of the lap, but equally you don’t want the car too pointy there, with oversteer. So good set-up and handling balance are really important. Stowe and Club are good corners too, but again any understeer there is bad news.

"I always seem to go well at Silverstone, and after our very encouraging test at Jerez at the end of June I really hope that the new parts we will have on the car will let me keep up that record this weekend."

Felipe Massa - Results for British GP:

YEAR	QUAL	RACE	COMMENTS
2004	10	9	-
2002	11	9	-