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Massa qualified 14th and Bottas 17th for the Monaco GP

Felipe Massa: "Monaco just isn’t a circuit that suits the characteristics of our car." Both drivers found it difficult to get the tyres up to temperature and found an overall lack of grip which hindered their ability to make it into Q3. Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: It was clearly a tough qualifying session for us and we are out of our usual position. We have been pouring through the data all week to try and find ways to improve our pace here, and whilst we have made some in-roads, qualifying has just come too soon for us to recover everything. Starting 14th and 17th in Monaco is never ideal because it so difficult to overtake, but we will see what we can do and...
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