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Current critics are no sweat for Massa

Felipe Massa came in for heavy criticism before the Bahrain Grand Prix as he had not scored a point in either of the first two races of the season and there were many rumours that he was to be replaced at Ferrari. However, the Brazilian driver was not daunted and insists he has endured far tougher times.

"Well, I've had many bad days in my life," Massa said. "It's not the first one and it won't be the last one, so I was really in a difficult moment of my career but not in Formula One, maybe when I was fired in Sauber, maybe when I had money to do one race and then if I didn't win I couldn't do the second one in Formula Renault. It was much more difficult than my situation now, so I don't care what's happened over the last weeks. I think it is part of the job for the journalists to write. They need to write something, so one day they write about you and one day they write about someone else and that's life."

"So it won't change anything," he added. "It won't change what you think, the team you race for is thinking, and that's perfect. Our job inside the team is fantastic and that's important. The other things are not important, so that's why for sure if I need to chose I prefer people who say good things about me, not bad things, but even if they say bad things, I prefer to hear what my team thinks about me and not other people, so I'm fine. "

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