Analysed coldly, Ferrari should have won, especially with Felipe Massa on the pole and the red cars’ known performance over race distances.  Massa and Kimi Raikkonen tripped over themselves in Lewis Hamilton’s wake early on, before Massa compounded his weakness in the first corner by making mistakes in Turn Four, which ultimately led to him sliding into the gravel.  Raikkonen admitted afterwards that Ferrari had to make a series of compromises with his engine, and with reduced straight-line speed the Finn was in no position in the first part of the race to do much about either of the silver arrows.  Ferrari’s was a team loss.  McLaren’s surprise success puts them into the lead of the world championship with 32 points to Ferrari’s 23.

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Jean Todt:

"This is definitely a disappointing result. After a great qualifying yesterday, with Felipe on pole and Kimi third, we certainly expected better.  The crucial points for getting a race win are grid position, the start, the strategy, reliability and obviously, the performance of the cars.  Today, we did not manage a good start with Felipe, who later, in an effort to catch up, went off track and dropped to fifth place, thus compromising his race.  Kimi was also overtaken at the start and from then on was unable to do anything about it."

Felipe Massa:

"It was a very tough race in which we suffered a lot. It was almost impossible to overtake. I tried to attack Lewis, but I made a mistake and ended up off the track.  The race did not go the way we had expected and our pace was slower than we had expected."

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