What's the real problem of Felipe Massa?

[racingbradley]

That means he should go well on 2011.

Hope so

[Mrs.Domenicali]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88141

Massa adamant 2011 will be better

By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer
Thursday, November 11th 2010, 14:08 GMT

Felipe Massa is confident that his difficult 2010 season will prove to be just a blip in his career, and says this year's form does not necessarily mean he will be overshadowed by team-mate Fernando Alonso again in 2011.

Alonso has emerged as a clear pacesetter at Ferrari this year, leading the championship into the final round while Massa is 103 points behind in sixth.

But he thinks anyone writing him off on the basis of 2010 is disregarding his achievements earlier in his career.

"I know what I'm able to do and I know I can fight for the championship and for victories, which I did many times," said Massa.

"For sure you always hear from the media because they just look at what's happening now. They never remember the past, they don't see anything about the future, they just look at what's happened race by race. So I don't care about that so much. I care about what I am and what I am able to do.

"I'm sure if I fix the big problem I had this year I will be back in the fight, and that's what I'm looking for."

He denied that Alonso would automatically enjoy priority at Ferrari in 2011 if he took this year's title - pointing out that Kimi Raikkonen had won the 2007 championship but then ended up supporting Massa's title bid in 2008.

"People forget the past - in 2007 Kimi won and in 2008 I fought for the championship," said Massa. "This isn't the first time these things have happened to me."

He denied that Alonso was the strongest team-mate he had ever faced.

"For sure he's a very strong driver, but I've always had strong team-mates - I had Michael [Schumacher], I had Kimi," Massa said.

"So it's not a big difference and I know about being a team-mate of strong drivers. I was always strong as well."

The Brazilian reiterated that he was convinced his lack of pace this year had been purely down to issues with getting the 2010 Bridgestones to the right temperature in qualifying.

"That is a big point in what's happened this year," said Massa.

"It was a big, big change from last year's tyres to this year's tyres and that was the worst thing for me. I'm sure it will be another big change when we try the Pirellis and I hope that can pull it back to the other side.

"For sure the tyres are a very important key to the car, especially when you have tyres which work in a different direction to you expect and what you always have.

"The most important thing this year was to have the right temperature on the first lap in qualifying, and that's something that is a big point in the fight.

"If you cannot do what you are able to in qualifying, you know that you are not going to start first."

[Poltergeistes]

I really hope he can be back being competitive with the pirellis, this season didn't reflect at all his improvments that he has had every year he spent with ferrari. and although he points that the main problem would be during the first try for the Q3, his race pace was bad too, only in bahrein he seemed to have the same pace as alonso, but when he was about to go try something smedley was already saying to save the engine, so i think it's more realistic to say that felipe and rob needs to sort this out, it's likely not just one problem.

Good luck to them, hope they will have a winning 2011, actually i hope felipe wins the abu dhabi gp, and fernando comes second and get the championship, would make everybody happier. but rob and felipe had their worse season together in terms of results and pressure, not that their lives were ever easy at ferrari, but usually it would only last a few races, this went on all season long. they never had a break, nothing went their way.

[racingbradley]

We just have to be optimistic for them and hope a brighter future is ahead.