By FIA Press Conference
October 21 2004

Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello has words of praise for the progress that fellow Brazilain driver Felipe Massa has over the past two seasons. (Frederic Ferret – L’Equipe) Rubens, as you are the oldest driver of the three Brazilians, what do you think of the other two, Ricardo and Felipe?

RB: "On Felipe, he has matured quite a lot inside Ferrari. He has still had an up-and- down season this year with Giancarlo. In terms of speed, I think he matches Giancarlo quite well. In terms of pure results, it’s been a bit difficult because of all the problems he’s had but he has the talent, so if he has a good set-up in terms of mind management and progresses, just keeps on going, he’s going to have a good year and probably he can win races in the future as well."

(Frederic Ferret) Did you help Felipe last year when he was with Ferrari?

RB: "As much as I could. We had Burti there as well. I tried to have Luciano in the team because he was a good test driver, he was a good driver so it was good for him to be there and it was nice to have Felipe there because he’s a young talent, so you are always trying to see what people can do on your car. Obviously he’s quite young, so when he came he was trying to learn all the time and all the things that he asked me, I managed to answer, no problem."

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