Alonso is right - although traffic and pit stops are part of racing - if it wasnt for the combination of new soft tyres (due to not make Q3) and Kobi and Button getting caught with Ricardo who seemed not to understand that fighting tooth and nail (even when boxing that lap) was only slowing him down, it was likely that Massa would have only have finished fourth. In addition, if the 1st corner incident didnt happen, then he would have best been in 8th because at that stage Kimi, Alonso, and webber would have been ahead of him on track aswell as Perez who later binned it. The only drivers he would ahve probably beat out of the top 10 was Lewis (set up issues) and Di Resta (clutch issues on start line). However, Alonso has made a season out of capatalising on others mistakes, so I think its harsh to devalue Massa's drive in anyway!
If you find the average pole to Alonso time of this year, not including wet/damage qualifyings, i'm sure you'll find the gap is atleast half a second, maybe even close to a second. How can anyone say that it's good enough for wins in the dry? Like he said on Friday, if he wins the championship, it's a miracle in that ****.
No it's not, he is still ahead, Ferrari have had an up and down year, they might have updates before the end of the season that work well.
If Massa can come 2nd in Japan, ahead of supposedly faster cars on merit, then that Ferrari cant be all bad.
And at the start of the season the Red bulls were off the pace to the front as well. Yet RBR have the best (duo) of drivers on the grid so they both still scored solid points all the time. Seb didn't get any excuses of having a dog of a car when it was obvious the whole car was a mess with the amount of changes they made to the rear all the way up to Monaco. It was an F spec at that point with the amount of changes they made and then the performances started to come back. Just because Massa sucked like donkey balls all the way up until now doesn't actually give valid proof Alonso was ever driving a worse car than what Seb and Webber got at Australia. Maybe both RB drivers outperformed their tractors more than Alonso did maybe? But again the media likes to play up stories to direct the public opinion with their bias on who they think has a **** car and who doesn't. Seems the media are scared to even question Alonso's actually ability as it might cost their worthless career and fear of ridicule from the public, almost like a middle eastern country burning a few flags. I have stomached enough of the mind games of Ferrari and Fernando that I have becoming increasingly bored of hearing it to the point that I think it was a smokescreen from the very start of the euro tour. Trying to make out Alonso is "unbeatable" and "nobody" can match his talent to put some doubt into Seb's head in particular. Ferrari had Mugello and the young drivers test to go crazy with and somehow it still wasn't enough for them, something else has got to give and they have used every excuse in the book to keep the pressure off Alonso and now other people, journalists, other drivers and teams in particular are starting to notice that the Ferrari isn't as bad as they like to make out. I want to see somebody else in that Ferrari beside Alonso, with equal treatment as well. I wish to replace Massa with either: (Kimi, Seb, Webber, Schumacher, Rosberg Lewis, Button, Perez.) and then we would see how "bad" that Ferrari really was, as I'm REALLY! starting to think it was never that bad in the first place...
I would be very much ok with that! Just so long as it was a more permanent move and not one that saw Vettel join a year later
Brazilian media say that Massa has signed with Ferrari and the announcement will be on Tuesday. Ferrari have denied it on twitter.
