Insight from Massa on quick new Ferrari

Felipe Massa has his tail up today, Ferrari are back in business and he knows that he has an important role in the outcome of the race, particularly at the start, where he lines up fourth on the grid.

Using the KERS system, which will give him an 80 horsepower boost on the run down to turn one, projections show that he should be second by the first corner, but if Button makes a poor start as he did in Bahrain and Kuala Lumpur, Massa will have him.

"It will be hard to pass in one go all three cars," he says. "However the KERS has shown itself to be very efficient on other races. Let's hope we get a good start and take advantage of it."

He is clearly in the fight for a podium, which would be Ferrari's first of the season.

"That's the objective," he says. "It would be a great result, if we think where we were in the first four races.

" Judging from Q2, on low fuel, I'd say that we are still a couple of tenths off (the Brawn and Red Bull cars). It doesn't sound like a lot, but when you add it up over a race it's quite a distance. I hope that the next evolutions which hopefully we'll have in Turkey, will close the rest of the gap, even if it might be a little bit late in the championship."

The new car, he says, is a marked improvement in a few key areas. The main thing is that it has more downforce, but it's also more driveable,

"It's more stable under braking and in the fast corners you can be more aggressive with it, " says Massa.

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