Massa can't explain lack of pace
By Andrew Hooper
August 6 2015
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Massa
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The recent
Hungarian Grand Prix would see the Williams Martini team fail to score any
points in a race that saw both team drivers Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas
struggle for pace. For Felipe Massa
the loss of pace, compared to the race at Silverstone, is something he can
not explain.
When questioned about their performance at Hungary Felipe would say:
"The pace was really, really bad. I don't know why.
"We were slow, especially me, behind in the traffic, especially with the
prime tyres.
"I couldn't drive at all, we were missing the overall grip on the car.
"I think maybe the best stint was the last one when I was free with the
option tyres but even like that I was not quick.
"I was struggling a lot with the pace and not good at all."
Of more concern for the Williams team was the huge difference between the
pace of their cars in qualifying and that of the race.
Smedley spoke of this:
"I don't think that we should start concentrating on it being a track layout
thing or a slow speed thing.
"We know that this wasn't going to be our best circuit, but all weekend we
haven't been as bad as we were on Sunday. So I think that we've got to go away and understand exactly what went
wrong.
"Whether or not because of the cooler temperatures and therefore the cooler
core or bulk temperatures, we generated more surface damage, more graining,
more tearing in the compound is something we'll have to go and see." |
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