Felipe Massa has admitted he was disappointed by Ferrari’s
choice of strategy at the Australian Grand Prix after losing a
position to team-mate Fernando Alonso at the second pit stop.
Felipe_Massa-F1_GP_Australia_2013-02Massa led Alonso for the
first two stints of their races, spearheading Ferrari’s pursuit
of the early race leader Sebastian Vettel. But at the second pit
stop Alonso was called in to the pits before Massa, allowing
Alonso to take on fresher tyres earlier and use the extra pace
to come out ahead of both Massa and Vettel when they made their
stops.  Asked whether he was pleased with how his strategy
panned out, Massa said: “No, I’m not pleased. When you are there
fighting with a car and I was second and close to Sebastian and
then suddenly a car behind stops … he [Alonso] stopped pretty
early to be honest – it was a risk, but it worked.  “Looking at
the degradation we had on Friday we had 15 laps on the tyre and
he stopped after lap 11 on the tyre. It was a risk, but it
worked, the track improv