Ihmettelen tuota Ferrarin hankaluutta renkaiden kanssa. Eikö heillä pitänyt olla etua muihin nähden pehmeiden renkaiden kestävyydessä? Massa sanoo, että renkaat olivat pilalla jo 5 kierroksen jälkeen. Ja tietysti kovia ei saatu lämpenemään. Massa sanoo, että eritysesti heidän autollaan on vaikeuksia kummassakin asiassa?:dunno:
Q. What can you tell us about the pace of the car in relation to the rest of the grid?
FM: It was not so easy on the race. On the soft tyres we were struggling, on the hard tyre we were struggling a lot to get the tyres working. If you take the whole race, we had the Brawn which was in another planet, then we had the Red Bull - Vettel was quite strong, quite a good pace, maybe a bit better than us. Then we had Kubica who was also competitive. I think we are in the middle of these teams.
We are competitive, we can be a little bit more, we expect to be more to be honest. I think this track is also difficult, there is no grip so with the soft tyres you destroy them quickly. You have the very good grip but you destroy them quickly. The hard tyres doesn't work, it's difficult to get them working especially after the safety car. You saw many people struggling completely. Especially with our car on this type of surface grip and together with the tyres it was very difficult to make it work.
Q. Can you explain the strategy in more detail?
FM: Well to be honest I was lap 15 and Kimi was lap 14. In the normal circumstance that is more to the three stops like many people were. And then we came in much earlier than that, lap 11 maybe, and Kimi came even before me. They decided to put more fuel in Kimi's car and keep me in on three stops. But then we had a safety car straight away which destroyed my strategy completely.
Q. When the soft tyres started to go off was it very sudden?
FM: After five laps straight away you are starting to suffer completely at the rear.