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Williams: I didn't realise that Massa didn't really want to retire

Felipe Massa cut short the briefest ever retirement to return to the team he ‘left' at the end of 2016 to replace Mercedes bound Valtteri Bottas, and with it revealing to team chief Claire Williams that in fact he did not want to quit Formula 1. Word is the Brazilian who earned around $4.5-million a year at Williams, in 2015 and 2016,  is now going to bank $6-million for his services alongside well financed teenage rookie Lance Stroll in 2017. In the wake of Massa's confirmation, Williams told Sky Sport, 'I know there's a lot of talk out there: let the guy retire, leave him alone. [But] he wants to come back. Little-known to me, I didn't actually realise that he didn't really want...
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