Felipe Massa: “Kimi Was on Different Tires Than Me, And, For Sure, He Had Better Grip”
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Jun 17, 2007
Q: Felipe, are you more worried now after this race seeing how McLaren is pulling away from Ferrari?
MASSA: We always worry. We don’t like to be behind. When you see our competitors in front, you always get worried. But we need to be together to improve, and I trust my team. So I know we can do, I know we have the possibilities to do. So for sure we are not comfortable, so that’s clear, but we keep working.
Q: Question to Felipe. We saw that you could follow in the first stint the McLarens, but in the second stint you lost ground. What happened there?
MASSA: Yeah, I lost a lot of—when they came in, especially I think it was Lewis—no, Lewis came together with me, but in my in lap and the last lap I was in traffic, and I lost a little bit of the gap. And that create me a bit of problem because I was in the big traffic in the in lap, so I lost maybe more than one second and then I stop. I go out, and I was also behind some cars going out of the pit. So there I lost quite important time.
MODERATOR: Some more questions.
Q: Felipe, in the last part of the race, Kimi and you, did you receive some suggestion from the wall, some team orders? You know the team orders, it’s possible to --
MASSA: Just to race, so no.
