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Massa leaves dramatic season final behind him

Felipe Massa returned behind the wheel of Ferrari's Formula 1 car on Thursday for the first time since the dramatic season final at Interlagos. The Brazilian leaves the dramatic season final at his home Grand Prix behind him and is now totally focussed on the upcoming season.

Speaking with the gathered media at Jerez Felipe Massa looked back at the final race of the 2008 Formula 1 season saying: "I live through the images of the race, especially the last laps. I think that it was difficult for my family and my friends to go from absolute joy to this great disappointment in just a couple of seconds. I was in the car and concentrated on driving and I knew that with the rain everything could happen. I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it. I don't like to life in the past. I prefer looking ahead, learning from what is happening to me. We did our best, we won the race. When you loose because of a single point there's hardly anything to regret. There were many things we could have done in a different way or even better or which could have gone a different way."

"Now I'm glad to be back on the track. My holidays went well, but after a while you simply get annoyed and I wanted to see how the cars run with the new tyres. I have to say that there's quite a difference, especially when you're running on used tyres. Then they are quite difficult to handle, especially in oversteering and with the lower downforce we have. But it has to be said that these cars are still hybrids, so they're not set up in the perfect way. I'm sure that with next year's car the situation will be completely different. Nevertheless it's really fun driving with slicks. The cars will be uglier? Well I think that's true. It seems that we're going back ten years. But in the end it's not beauty that counts, is it?"

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