Felipe Massa qualified eighth for this evening's Bahrain Grand Prix. The Brazilian driver made it comfortably through to Q2 with his first lap on the supersofts.
He then set one time on the supersofts in Q2, which was enough to take him comfortably through to the final 12 minutes of qualifying. For Q3 Felipe set a 1:30.074 on a new set of supersofts which was good enough for P8.
Felipe had a trouble free session and should have some good opportunities for the race.
"I'm happy with our qualifying session and the job that we did. Maybe the perfect position would have been seventh as we lost a little bit of time at the end there. But, I'm really looking forward to the race tomorrow,” he said. “I'm happy with the performance of the car across the whole weekend, not only on new tyres but also the old tyres. Tomorrow is another day and we need to concentrate on getting everything right and try to get a better position tomorrow.”
Max Verstappen however, was more than a little annoyed at Felipe for coming out in front of him when he was trying to prepare for a quick lap and blames the Brazilian in part for why he only qualified in P6. Massa has yet to respond to the allegations.
