Ferrari drowns

Poor Scuderia. Dry or wet track, city or natural circuit, disqualification or downgrading of opponents... nothing helps. Is evil only hiding in the F60?

Published on 08/04/2009 à 11:00

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Faces of the dirty days at meeting time. Betraying disappointment and tension. After a promising Friday, everything went wrong for Massa, right from qualifying. Eliminated from Q1! Convinced that he would stay there, his team did not see fit to send him back to the track with a new set of soft tires. However, everything came down to the last five minutes. To finally find yourself 16th…

“We chose to make a single attempt with the soft tires to keep a new set to use from the very start of the next session because rain was forecast,” explains Luca Baldisserri, the strategist of the Team. But we reacted badly to the fact that the track suddenly improved. »

The race? Massa ended up with rain tires when he should have had intermediates. Then he put on intermediate shoes as the flood came? A disaster.

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