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Rob Smedley: “I cried for about an hour after Massa lost the 2008 title – it was so intense…”

Rob Smedley: “I cried for about an hour after Massa lost the 2008 title – it was so intense…”

F1 Beyond The Grid vor 7 Jahren

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This week, for the first time on Beyond The Grid, presented by
Bose, we’re not speaking to a driver or a team boss, but to an
engineer – and someone who’s been directly involved of some of
the biggest moments in F1 in the past 20 years. Rob Smedley is
probably best known to most fans as Felipe Massa’s long-standing
Race Engineer, and in that role he experienced the full gamut of
emotions, from the elation of race wins to the heartbreak of a
narrow title loss, and the horror of seeing ‘his’ driver severely
injured.

We also talk to him about working for Ferrari, issuing
controversial team orders, his impending departure from Williams,
and why Michael Schumacher – a man he worked so closely with –
was much more than a driver…