Felipe Massa endured a frustrating Friday in Spain, the Brazilian finishing FP2 in a lowly 16th place having been ninth in the morning session.
Meanwhile, his Williams teammate Valtteri Bottas was only 11th in FP2. Both drivers failed to get a clean lap in on soft tires, but clearly there´s a lot of work to be done.
“It was not a fantastic Friday,” said Massa. “Trying to understand the tires, trying to understand the car. I also had a mistake on my best lap with the new tires, with the soft tires, I went completely on the outside of the track. I couldn´t do my best lap on the first lap, which is the lap, then after you get minimum a half second, six-tenths slower, so I did it on my second lap.
“So not so happy for the Friday compared to Russia, for example. There´s a lot of work to try to make the car more competitive for tomorrow.”
However, Massa remains upbeat: “I expect to be competitive, I expect to maybe in a position to fight with Red Bull, it´s not easy they have a good car here in this track. But we will try.”
