Ferrari driver Felipe Massa claims title battle will be closer in final 8 races of 2011 season
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa claims that the title battle for the 2011 Formula 1 season is going to be even closer at the final 8 races as Ferrari and McLaren are now closer than ever to Red Bull Racing’s pace.
“I believe Ferrari and McLaren will be a lot more competitive in the last eight races. I can't imagine that Red Bull will continue to have the huge advantage they had at the start,” he told the media.
However, Massa claims that he has still not been able to understand the hard compound tyres which is the main reason for his ‘disappointing’ performance this year but since Pirelli will not provide harder tyres for the rest of the races, he is hoping for
better results now.
“For me, I suffered a bit with the harder tyres, it is encouraging to know that they will no longer be used until the end of the Championship,” he added.
Despite the fact that the current championship leader Sebastian Vettel already has a sufficient lead and catching him is going to require a ‘miracle.’ both Ferrari and McLaren are confident that they have the ability to catch up with them in terms of statistics
which is true but not as easy as it sounds.
Vettel is more than 80 points ahead of his rivals which means that in order to catch him, his rivals will be relying on his mistakes which is not going to happen if the reigning world champion keeps driving this way and if his team keeps giving him a good,
fast and reliable car.
RBR have not retired out of a single race in the 2011 Formula 1 season up until now while Ferrari and McLaren have been quite inconsistent.
Nevertheless, there are still 8 races remaining and as we all know, anything can happen in Formula 1 and the current grid which contains drivers like Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Mark Webber, and Fernando Alonso has the capability of pulling off miracles
as well.
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