From GMM
In the midst of his despair, Ferrari driver Felipe Massa turned his thoughts to the well being of Toyota team members after the controversial finish of the Grand Prix of Brazil on Sunday.
According to Germany's Sport Bild, Massa feared that his Brazilian supporters at Interlagos might turn their frustration on members of the Japanese team.
Toyota driver Timo Glock's dramatically slow final lap of the Brazilian grand prix, which gave fifth place to Lewis Hamilton, cost Massa the world championship.
Sport Bild reports that Massa sent his younger brother to the Toyota garage to advise team members to change out of their uniforms before leaving the circuit, located just outside sprawling Sao Paulo.
Apparently, Toyota figures did heed the warning, returning to their hotels or to the airport wearing Brazilian national team jerseys, or spare uniforms of the Renault or Ferrari teams.
German driver Glock, meanwhile, was forced to deny wild conspiracy theories that - albeit with an unexplained motive - he deliberately slowed to allow Hamilton to be champion.
"Maybe the Brazilian fans are not on my side any more but I tried my best and drove my race," he told BBC radio.
In the Toyota F1 race debrief, Glock said: "To be honest I was racing for Toyota and my place which is the correct thing to do. I didn't even know that Lewis was directly behind me. The team told me that Sebastian Vettel was catching me and they kept me updated on his position but I was concentrating so hard on keeping the car on the track. I didn't even know that Lewis had overtaken me until after the race. I was passed by three or four cars on the final lap and it was not easy to keep track of what was going on."
photo:Toyota
In the midst of his despair, Ferrari driver Felipe Massa turned his thoughts to the well being of Toyota team members after the controversial finish of the Grand Prix of Brazil on Sunday.
According to Germany's Sport Bild, Massa feared that his Brazilian supporters at Interlagos might turn their frustration on members of the Japanese team.
Toyota driver Timo Glock's dramatically slow final lap of the Brazilian grand prix, which gave fifth place to Lewis Hamilton, cost Massa the world championship.
Sport Bild reports that Massa sent his younger brother to the Toyota garage to advise team members to change out of their uniforms before leaving the circuit, located just outside sprawling Sao Paulo.
Apparently, Toyota figures did heed the warning, returning to their hotels or to the airport wearing Brazilian national team jerseys, or spare uniforms of the Renault or Ferrari teams.
German driver Glock, meanwhile, was forced to deny wild conspiracy theories that - albeit with an unexplained motive - he deliberately slowed to allow Hamilton to be champion.
"Maybe the Brazilian fans are not on my side any more but I tried my best and drove my race," he told BBC radio.
In the Toyota F1 race debrief, Glock said: "To be honest I was racing for Toyota and my place which is the correct thing to do. I didn't even know that Lewis was directly behind me. The team told me that Sebastian Vettel was catching me and they kept me updated on his position but I was concentrating so hard on keeping the car on the track. I didn't even know that Lewis had overtaken me until after the race. I was passed by three or four cars on the final lap and it was not easy to keep track of what was going on."
photo:Toyota