Midseason Report: Grading Felipe Massa’s Performance

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Published: July 31, 2013

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No driver in the history of Formula One can come as close to winning the world drivers’ title without actually doing it as Felipe Massa.

Rewind almost five years to the final round of the title decider in Sao Paulo and Massa had tears in his eyes, celebrating becoming a world champion on his home soil. In the pitlane, his father was also crying tears of joy, tears that would become those of despair just seconds later as Lewis Hamilton past Timo Glock’s struggling Toyota on the final corner of the final lap to snatch ultimate glory from his grasp.

Fast-forward back to today and Massa is a man under pressure. Serious pressure. Yes he is team-mate to Fernando Alonso and the Scuderia has clearly put all of its eggs into the Alonso basket but seventh in the drivers’ standings with a paltry 61 points is an extremely poor return for a man who could have been world champion. It’s little wonder many see it as a matter of time before Ferrari pull the plug.



Massa’s 2013 season didn’t actually get off to a bad start in Australia. He outqualified Alonso to start fourth on the grid ahead of his team-mate and actually led the pursuit of Sebastian Vettel in the opening stint.

But he vented his frustration after the race when team strategy brought in Alonso for fresh rubber earlier on the second stop, allowing the Spaniard to come out ahead of Vettel and Massa, who was not a happy bunny afterwards when interviewed by Sky Sports F1.

No, I'm not pleased. When you are there fighting with a car and I was second and close to Sebastian and then suddenly a car behind stops ... he [Alonso] stopped pretty early to be honest - it was a risk, but it worked.

Spurred on by this sense of injustice, Massa qualified on the front row in Malaysia alongside pole sitter Vettel, with Alonso a place behind. But he bemoaned high graining on his intermediate tyres en route to a fifth p...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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