Felipe Massa has said he will walk away from Formula One the day he becomes a number two driver.
Just four days after the team orders controversy that dogged the German Grand Prix, Massa was again in the spotlight on his return to the Hungaroring where last year he almost lost his life.
Via coded messages from race engineer Rob Smedley, Massa was forced to hand victory to Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso at Hockenheim after leading for the majority of the opening 49 laps of the 67-lap race.
Ferrari were found guilty of a breach of the rules that prohibits teams orders and were fined 100,000 US dollars.
Ferrari's decision has effectively ensured Massa will now have to play second fiddle to Alonso for the remainder of the season.
But a defiant Massa said: "The time I say I am a number two driver I will not race any more, and I am not (a number two).
"I will fight for the victory here, whatever the conditions."
Asked what would happen if he found himself in the same situation, with himself in the lead and Alonso second, he replied: "I will win."
Massa claims he has assurances from Ferrari, stating: "I've spoken to everybody inside the team.
"I'm not just here to race, I'm here to win, and that's my point.
"Yes, I am working for the team. We know how important that is. I want the best for the team, but I am professional."
But questioned as to whether the incident had changed his relationship with Ferrari, he revealingly replied: "It makes me even stronger."
However, the Brazilian would like to see team orders, which are actually banned, eradicated completely.
"I just think we should do something to stop this thing, because at the end of the day it could get into a bit of a drama.
"When you are racing you want to beat the other one, but I wouldn't feel nice and feel good [if a team said] if I give you this and then you win. I never did like it. That is why I changed teams and that is why I went on.
"It is in the hand on the top people to change that. You should be allowed to race. If you don't win the Championship by one point, so be it.
"And if you win the Championship by one point because someone gave it to you, what is the point? If I had to be a bad guy and be World Champion. I don't care. I will teach my boys that, and I will be happy with that."
Meanwhile, Rubens Barrichello, a man who knows what it feels like to play second fiddle, says he feels "sorry" for Massa and the way he was treated last Sunday.
"All I can say is that I am very sorry to him, to see what he had to go through such a bad thing," said the Brazilian, who spent a large part of his Ferrari career defering to Michael Schumacher.
"Nobody should be able to go through those feelings. Felipe is a friend and I wish he didn't have to go through it."
