Melbourne pecking order as expectedFelipe Massa dominated the pre-season testing in Bahrain, but come qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, a gearbox failure put the Brazilian on the back-foot for the remainder of the weekend. Starting last, Massa used a one stop strategy
to salvage a sixth place finish. Despite the result, Massa remains very upbeat for the season ahead with Ferrari.
"I agree that the race itself was good, I was not so happy with the outcome of the weekend, because of the circumstances that prevented me qualifying properly the previous day," Massa explained.
"But in the end I had a good Australian Grand Prix, a good race and that is encouraging for the next few rounds of the championship. Now, I just have to think ahead and a fresh chance in the next race at Sepang and looking forward to being at the front."
"If you look at the overall performance levels of our competitors last weekend, to be honest it turned out just as I had expected based on the results of winter testing:
McLaren a little bit better than the others but a bit behind the Scuderia and then
BMW is how I saw the order of things. I hope it stays like this for the next few races!"
Massa has taken a short break back home in Brazil but flew to Malaysia yesterday as he will take part in the final day of testing at Sepang this week, taking over from team-mate
Kimi Raikkonen who will test on the first two days.
"Now with just one car allowed per test and less days available, you really need to be ready to prepare properly for the race and be as organised as possible and make the most of every single lap of testing," Massa concluded.
Source Ferrari
