Felipe Massa: “When I braked I just went sideways…”

Felipe Massa will start the Canadian GP in 16th place after crashing out of the damp Q2 session.

It was the Ferrari driver’s third major accident in recent weeks after the two in Monaco, albeit not quite as spectacular as its predecessors.

“I didn’t see the video yet, but people tell me I braked over the white line,” said Massa. “Maybe it’s possible, because when I braked I just went sideways straight away. I’m really disappointed with what happened. It’s like a movie you know, three things happened straight away like that. I’m very disappointed, not happy, but the race is tomorrow, so we need to concentrate on tomorrow, and try to do a good race tomorrow.

“We don’t gain anything by going to the past, we need to go to the present and the future. It’s true that it’s not nice to start in the back, but it’s also true that this is a race, this is a track that every year many things happen during the race, so we need to concentrate on that and try to do a good race tomorrow.”

Massa said he had suffered no physical after effects.

“Physically it’s fine, this crash was nothing compared to Monaco, much slower. The crash I had here is more… psychological than physical! So we have to forget about that and start a different thing. I think the pace was OK today, the biggest problem was the evolution. When it was very wet it was not easy, when it was a dry line it was OK for us. We’ll see how the conditions are going to be tomorrow.”