Felipe Massa was born 25 April 1981 in São Paulo and grew up in Botucatu, in São Paulo countryside. He is of Italian descent.
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Felipe Massa is a Brazilian racing driver. He competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between 2002 and 2017, where he scored 11 Grand Prix victories, 41 podiums and finished as championship runner-up in 2008 by one point. Massa was born 25 April 1981 in São Paulo and grew up in Botucatu, in São Paulo countryside. He is of Italian descent. His grandparents come from the town of Cerignola, in the province of Foggia, Italy. Massa confirmed that he would be retiring from Formula One at the end of the 2017 season.
In 2000, Massa moved to Europe to compete in the Italian Formula Renault series, winning both the Italian and the European Formula Renault championships that year. The Brazilian could have moved to Formula Three, but instead chose the Euro Formula 3000, where he won 6 of the 8 races and the 2001 championship. He was then offered a Formula 1 test with the Sauber team, who signed him for 2002. He also drove for Alfa Romeo in the European Touring Car Championship as a guest driver.
Felipe Massa married Anna Raffaela Bassi on November 30, 2007. The pair met through mutual friends who were dating, after Massa was fired by Sauber following a poor debut season in 2002. Massa admits that he probably wouldn’t have met his wife if he wasn’t fired. The couple have a son, Felipinho Bassi Massa, who was born in 2009. Raffaela is not shy of the limelight and as her husband’s number one fan, can be spotted at all his races.
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Anna Raffaela Bassi aka Raffaela Massa was born in Brazil in 1978 and is 44 years old as of 2022. She met her hubby at a club in 2002, Massa’s friend was dating a girl who was friends with Raffaella and she introduced them. They got married five years later in their natal Sao Paulo, Brazil where among their families and friends they celebrated their union on November 30, 2007. Raffaela found out she was expecting the following year, little Felipinho Bassi Massa was born on the same day of Felipe and Raffaela’s second wedding anniversary, Nov. 30th 2009.
