Birel99 wrote:Another good run from Alonso.
Looks like things backfired for Massa...
I think that Ferrari short fueled Kimi in a bid to get him ahead of Lewis and slow him up enouph to let a heavier Massa to keep up. But with Lewis out front, I think he will pull away from kimi with no problems....
I don't think that's quite true. Massa had problems on both his runs, the first he was too gentle on his out lap and so lost time in the first sector - the second run he was way too hard on the outlap, including setting the fastest time of anyone in sector 3, and they were already giving up by the end of his qualifying lap. It looks like a simple case of having a slight problem on his first qualifying run and then over compensating.
I agree though that Kimi is light, hence being disappointed with second. So I think that the more likely story is that Massa and Hamilton are on roughly the same strategy, within a couple of laps of each other, and that Kimi is a bit lighter in an attempt by Ferrari to bring him into play. They said they wanted a 1 - 2 finish, and given Kimi's Q2 problems, and Q3 problems in general, the only guaranteed way to bring him into the mix is to fuel him light.