The Italian press on Monday morning appeared to have forgiven Felipe Massa for throwing away victory at the recent Malaysian grand prix.
After winning convincingly in Bahrain a week later, Brazil’s Ferrari driver admitted that he had been given a tough time for his Sepang errors by the country’s notoriously critical media.
Massa, 25, said on Sunday that journalists had given him “problems” after Malaysia.
“Fortunately it was only for one week,” he grinned. “I’m sure now they are going to talk in a different way.”
Massa was right. Corriere dello Sport crowned him as the ‘desert King’ after he proved the pick of the field at Sakhir.
La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote: “The post-Schumacher era is at Massa’s feet, because Raikkonen and Alonso disappoint.”
