Ferrari’s Felipe Massa urges his team to resolve car problems – Formula 1 news
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa has urged his team to do everything it can to solve the problems their car faced at the Australian Grand Prix in the last week of March 2011.
“The Australian Grand Prix did not go the way myself and the team had expected, as we were not as competitive as we had thought we would be, based on the winter performance,” he told the media.
The new car delivered some promising results during the pre-season testing period before the 2011 Formula 1 season began and it seemed that both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa would be able to compete for the drivers’ title actively in the year. However,
after the Australian Grand Prix, it seems that Ferrari is way off the pace of both McLaren and Red Bull Racing team at the moment.
The team revealed that their new car was facing tyre temperature problems because of which the car entered the corners with understeer before exiting them with oversteer.
Due to the lack of balance, Massa was unable to score a decent lap time during the qualifying session. As a result, he started at 8th position on the grid before finishing the race in 7th as the two Saubers were disqualified due to
technical infringements.
“If there is one lesson we take away with us after the opening round is that we have a lot of work to do. We urgently need to find out exactly what happened in Australia, understanding what we did and what the other teams did. We did not come away with as
many points as we thought we could score in the first race, so we have to get back to where we want to be by the next race,” Massa added.
Massa stated that he was surprised by the pace of Red Bull’s RB7 and that was what his team needs to achieve as soon as possible in order to compete actively for the titles. After a below-par performance in 2010, Ferrari are aiming for nothing less than
both titles in the 2011 Formula 1 season.
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