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Williams has to understand tyre woes, says Massa

Felipe Massa says that Williams needs to get to the bottom of its tyre problems after both he and teammate Valtteri Bottas struggled for pace on the soft Pirellis at Spa. The Grove squad's cars found speed after switching to mediums, and Massa was able to recover to sixth place, although Bottas was hampered by a drive-through penalty for having his tyres fitted incorrectly. “I'm not happy because I would say maybe the first 10 laps was a disaster for us,” said Massa. “The start was not good, but also the pace on the soft tyres was really a disaster; we lost many positions with both cars. It was really tough. "I'm sure it paid a lot the result we had at the end of the race, this...
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