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Felipe Massa
Date of birth: 25th April 1981
Current age: 21 years
Place of birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Current Team: Sauber-Petronas
Height: 1,66 m
Weight: 59 kg
Career
1990-97 Karting
1998 5th place in the Brazilian Formula Chevrolet Championship
1999 1st place in the Brazilian Formula Chevrolet Championship
2000 1st place in the Italian Formula Renault Series; 1st place in the European Formula Renault
In 2000 he won the Italian Formula Renault Championships and the European Formula 3000 championship title in 2001, actions that catapulted him to the attention of the Formula One World.
Series
2001
1st place in the Formula 3000 Euro-Series with 6 wins in 8 races, 6 Pole positions and 5 fastest laps
2002
F1 Sauber Petronas
In 2002 Felipe Massa made his F1 competition debut with a first race at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
The rest of the year he worked on the test circuits for Scuderia Ferrari. But he returned to Sauber for a two year contract and teamed up with Giancarlo Fisichella. In 2004 he achieved fourth place at the Belgian Grand Prix en route to 12th place in the 2004 Formula One Drivers’ Championship.
In 2005 he finished fourth place at the Canadian Grand Prix and an overall 13 th position in the driver’s table.
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