Felipe Massa says that Ferrari has to focus on doing a better job next season rather than worry about what went wrong in Abu Dhabi, where the title slipped from Fernando Alonso’s grasp.
“I think we need to think about next year now, so we need to concentrate,” said Massa after the race. “For sure we’re going hear and read many things, but I think that’s not the most important thing, the most important thing is to concentrate to be strong in 2011.
“We’re going to have a test here with the Pirelli tyres, and I hope we can learn straight away. I think that is the right direction, to concentrate on next year and try to do an even stronger championship than we did this year.”
Like his team mate, Massa pitted in a reaction to Mark Webber’s stop, and as a result he finished a frustrated 10th.
“We had not an easy race, definitely. We started on the normal way, and then we had a safety car, but we thought it was a bit too early to stop. And then after a while we saw Webber stopping. Then we took the decision to stop to try to pass him, especially on my case. It was not enough, so I came behind him.
“The worst thing is we came behind the guys who stopped before. So that was very difficult and very tough, because it was almost impossible to overtake, especially in my case we had Alguersuari in front his car was doing 316km/h without a tow, and I was doing 312km/h with a tow. So it was almost impossible to overtake.
“With Fernando it was the same, because Petrov was very quick on the straight as well. It was really not an easy race. This penalised everything to the end, because we were not able to pass the guys, we were not able to fight, and it was not a great race.”
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