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Jonathan Noble surprised himself at the Hungaroring by feeling sorry for Felipe Massa. He also looked into Kimi Raikkonen's current form and warns not to write off the reigning world champion just yet
It was a case of hats off and then hats on at the end of the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hats off? Well, for the first time in my life, I actually found myself feeling genuinely sorry for Felipe Massa. And hats on? It was a thinking cap trying to work out what is going on with Kimi Raikkonen.
So, Massa first.
I'm always a great believer that if a driver is not standing on the top step of the podium almost every race, then he has to spend some time winning the media war if he wants to earn some respect in the paddock.
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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.
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