Brazilian Grand Prix 2011, Interlagos Circuit - Race 19/19

Massa's lid for Brazil, people on here can say what they like about him but 100 GP's for Ferrari is something he can always feel very proud about....not too shabby for a guy always being replaced, driven with MS, Kimi and Alonso, considering those team mates he has done very well to reach 100 with Ferrari.

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clv101 said:
Yeah - Massa's had some very tough competition in his career, and was even world champion for a few seconds!
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He's a great driver on his day, he just doesn't have the consistency :-(

I'd love for him to win a WDC but he would really need to raise a gear or two.

Just wonder sometimes how much of his slowness is down to the team strategy/team orders.
 
Is the feed on bbc.co.uk/f1 working for anyone? I just get the loading animation :(

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Ah, just started now I posted that. Quality is horrendous, so I guess there's a lot of people streaming.
 
Mr Men said:
2008 says hello.....2009 he was dominating Kimi until Hungary, he has not been the same since nearly dying, but he was fine without TC.
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How many times did he spin in 2008? There were constant jokes about him spinning that year. The car (joint best on the grid) was the reason he almost won the championship. Had Kimi not suffered as many mechanical faults and Hamilton crashing into him while at a red light, he'd have probably won. I believe Kimi beat or equalled the record for number of fastest laps that year.

Massa was (good but) never great before the accident, and he's not gotten any better.

Massa and kimi were pretty even in 2009

http://www.enterf1.com/f1/Raikkonen-v-Massa-In-2009.asp
 
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englishpremier said:
How many times did he spin in 2008? There were constant jokes about him spinning that year. The car (joint best on the grid) was the reason he almost won the championship. Had Kimi not suffered as many mechanical faults and Hamilton crashing into him while at a red light, he'd have probably won.

Massa was (good but) never great before the accident, and he's not gotten any better.

Massa and kimi were pretty even in 2009

http://www.enterf1.com/f1/Raikkonen-v-Massa-In-2009.asp
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Other than Silverstone, not a lot but that was raining and his setup was all wrong. He had double the points of Kimi at Hungary IIRC. Saying he got worse without TC is really not true. You can say about having the best car to nearly any driver doing well in the championship so it's not really a valid point.

Massa had his share or mechanical problems as well, Hungary losing the race win so close to the end, and Singapore epic fail in the pitlane by the mechanics, with a help of dirty cheating by Renault :D
 
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Interlagos is always good.

I think F1 needs more of a mix of circuits. Interlagos is certainly different with it's accents and decents, and the super short laptimes.

I'd like to see a few longer circuits too, with laptimes in the few minutes.
 
Practice 1 times

Code: 
[b]Pos  Driver                Team                    Time               Laps[/b]
 1.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault        1m13.811s   	        26
 2.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1m13.825s  + 0.014   25
 3.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes        1m13.961s  + 0.150   20
 4.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault        1m14.025s  + 0.214   28
 5.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari                 1m14.507s  + 0.696   34
 6.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                 1m14.541s  + 0.730   26
 7.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes                1m15.162s  + 1.351   28
 8.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes    1m15.178s  + 1.367   28
 9.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes    1m15.241s  + 1.430   31
10.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes                1m15.321s  + 1.510   29
11.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m15.468s  + 1.657   29
12.  Romain Grosjean       Renault                 1m15.547s  + 1.736   18
13.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1m15.663s  + 1.852   27
14.  Bruno Senna           Renault                 1m15.732s  + 1.921   32
15.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari          1m15.747s  + 1.936   31
16.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth       1m15.836s  + 2.025   27
17.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari          1m15.979s  + 2.168   35
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m16.052s  + 2.241   33
19.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault           1m16.514s  + 2.703   33
20.  Luiz Razia            Lotus-Renault           1m17.595s  + 3.784   31
21.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth         1m18.140s  + 4.329   29
22.  Jerome D'Ambrosio     Virgin-Cosworth         1m18.653s  + 4.842   29
23.  Daniel Ricciardo      HRT-Cosworth            1m18.952s  + 5.141   33
24.  Jan Charouz           HRT-Cosworth            1m19.577s  + 5.766   37
 
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