Why is Felipe Massa under pressure?
Massa has driven well to score two podiums so far in 2010 but has been a long way behind the raw pace of his teammate. Fernando Alonso has outqualfiied Massa in 4 of the 6 races this year and has scored 14 more points despite costly mistakes in Australia, China and Monaco. If Alonso had made fewer driving errors in 2010 and hadn’t suffered an engine failure in Malaysia he would be comfortably leading the world championship, well ahead of Massa in the overall standings. At the start of this year Ferrari indicated they hadn’t finalised Massa’s 2011 contract because there was some hesitation over how long it should last. Now there are rumours the team have abandoned those talks and are actually looking to replace Felipe with either Mark Webber or Robert Kubica.
