You seem to have missed the point. I didnt say he was faster, or even as fast, I said he was 2 tenths off. So why is Montezemelo bitchin at him? If he goes 2 tenths faster he will be on golden boys pace and golden boy will crack, thats not what they want. So Montezemelo should count his luckies instead of griping at Massa. (And Why are you bringing Hamilton and Heiki into a thread about massa...AGEN!)
I think Luca is simply stating what they expect of Massa.
But yes, Massa has not been as fast as Alonso. Not consistently at least. He's had a couple good races, but you cant really say he's in a good shape. In fact, i bet even Massa knows he's not as fast as he can be.
No, Im sure he's aware he's a couple of tenths off. If the car and tyres were more to his style he'd be there. But despite that what does Luca expect? The extra 2 tenths to bring him onto Alonsos pace? He wants war?Or has alonso and his gang got that sewn up? Look back to my quote about his achievemnets in the last four races that Luca's bitchin about, they arent bad.
As Sefano once mentioned: "its the game (referring to comments made in the media", I agree with you that Massa hasn't shown signs of being knocked back or giving up after Germany (which I thought he would), but Luca is simply trying to urge him on and make sure he doesn't give up, if it'll motivate Massa to work harder to win public praise from Luca or just piss him off I don't know, Luca's quite fond of this loud abrasive demand what you want publicly style (in contrast to Stefano I've noticed), and I think it works, but I don't know whether it really will have a positive effect on Massa or not.
Possibly Massa tried hard a couple of races after Germany to prove he's able to keep up with Alonso. Personally I think Massa could've done better in Spa, and was a bit unlucky to not take the lead at the start in Monza (he was clearly the fastest after Jenson and Alonso moved across, just had to get out of the throttle because the track was so narrow there was no space, he perhaps should've out qualified Jenson. But later on, maybe Massa will lose interest in this years championship as he isn't in it.
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