F1 / Bahrain – Massa: “We have made progress”

Even though he is going through a difficult period, Felipe Massa remains hopeful and is crossing his fingers that the Bahrain Grand Prix will allow him to get back in the saddle and silence the criticism against him. “I have always had good times here, explains the double winner of the event (2007 and 2008). As I have already said, past facts do not matter as everything changes so quickly in a sport like Formula 1. In Shanghai we clearly made progress, even if the end result was not satisfactory for me, Fernando and the team. was not satisfactory for me as well as Fernando. However, it's what I would call a normal race as qualifying was normal and our race pace wasn't too bad. It was a very different Grand Prix from the first two. That's why I'm optimistic and hope to have a good race on Sunday, score big points, and then from there, continue like that in the following Grands Prix. .

Asking whether he thought the high temperatures in Barhrain would be suitable for F2012, the Brazilian driver responded that it was still too early to know how the Ferrari F2012 in this type of condition. “I would like to think so, but we still need to improve our car. We must keep in mind that we have here a car little different from the one we had in Shanghai last week. »