Williams have signed Brazil’s Felipe Massa for the 2014 Formula 1 season. Massa, 32, joins from rivals Ferrari, for whom he has raced since the 2006 season, with Pastor Maldonado dismissed by Williams.
The Williams F1 Team will have Massa drive alongside Venezuelan Valtteri Bottas for the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship season. The new line-up reflects Williams’ determination to bring success back to the team that has scored only a solitary point in the 2013 Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship with one round left.
Massa’s Grand Prix future was sealed when Ferrari announced they had re-signed Kimi Raikkonen for next season. Massa has won 11 races and recorded 36 podium finishes in 12 seasons of Grand Prix racing, narrowly missing out on the 2008 drivers’ world title to Britain’s Lewis Hamilton by just a single point, but helped Ferrari win the constructors’ world title in both in 2007 and 2008.
Massa adds another Brazilian link to Williams team and went on record to say that he was happy to be joining another ‘iconic’ team and one that Brazilian Grand Prix greats Ayrton Senna and Nelson Piquet had both raced for.