Sunday: Alonso and Ferrari won’t give up anything

Fernando Alonso – 2nd:

« Today’s second place is a victory for us, at the end of a difficult weekend on a track where it is very hard to catch up. The key points of this race are the start and the strategy and, in both cases, the decisions made turned out to be the right ones, even if they were aggressive choices. At the start, I managed to pass four cars but I couldn’t get past Rosberg. The decision to pit when the safety car came out paid off, even if it wasn’t easy to reach the finish line with the tires on the limit. Fortunately, thanks to the advantage I had over Räikkönen and Webber, we were able to manage the situation over the final laps. If I had been in a group, it would have been like the end of a horror movie. Now the gap with the championship leaders has increased and besides congratulating them, because they deserve to be where they are, we have to be realistic. To win the title now, we would need a lot of luck. Of course, we cannot think of giving up right away because if luck shows up, then we’ll be there to seize it. »

Felipe Massa – 6th:

Considering everything that happened during the race today, sixth place is a good result. After a fantastic start, at the first corner I found myself stuck inside the cars that had braked very early and, at that moment, I lost ground. I was always stuck behind other cars and we all know how difficult it is to overtake on this circuit. When the safety car came out, we had two options: put on medium tires, with which we were not sure of going to the end, or the super softs, to try to regain some places. We chose the second option, but Di Resta was ahead of me with the same tires so I got stuck behind him. In the last stint after the third stop, I managed to recapture sixth place. It was tough and I am very happy to have brought home good points.