Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo has paid tribute to the Italian team and its drivers, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen, after the outfit claimed their 16th constructors’ title on Sunday in Brazil. Ferrari finished the season with 172 points to McLaren’s 151.
“Winning for the eighth time in 10 years - a feat unequalled at world level in any other team sport - proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what an extraordinary group we are,” Montezemolo said. “We have two great drivers in Felipe and Kimi also, and they deserve all our compliments for a job well done.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has paid tribute to Lewis Hamilton after the British star denied Brazilian Felipe Massa the Formula One world title.
“I want to congratulate Lewis Hamilton, the youngest world champion in the history of Formula One,” said di Montezemolo.
“He was an incredibly tough competitor and he fully deserved his victory ... Next year he will have the number 1 on his car but there’s one thing we can be certain about: we’ll do everything we can to have this number back on a Ferrari.”
Di Montezemolo also had a word of commiseration for Massa, who came so close and whose family and mechanics had actually started to celebrate the title victory before Hamilton’s late drama.
“We have two great drivers in Felipe and Kimi also, and they deserve all our compliments for a job well done,” he continued, hailing race winner Massa as a “great champion and a great man”.
“Felipe in particular is in my thoughts as he crossed the finish line yesterday as world champion only to see the title slip through his fingers a few seconds later,” he said. “I can only imagine how painful that moment must have been for him.”
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