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Fiery start for Massa

"It is unlikely that the car will be back on track much before 3pm"

By GMM

3 February 2011 - 13:47

Felipe Massa on Thursday got his 2011 campaign off to a fiery start.

With only a chilly shakedown at Fiorano behind him, the Brazilian was a few laps into his proper test debut in the new F150 at Valencia when oil began to leak onto the exhausts.

Massa stopped at the side of the track but a fire broke out.

"It is unlikely that the car will be back on track much before 3 in the afternoon," said the Italian team after assessing the damage.

Before completing the first two of the three test days in Spain, Fernando Alonso had been working on adjusting the F150’s setup to the difficult new Pirelli tyres.

"Felipe must now continue this work," the Spaniard had stridently told his country’s reporters at Valencia late on Wednesday.

Times at 1 pm CET :

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
01	A. Sutil	Force India VJM03	1.13.201		43
02	J. Button	McLaren MP4-25	1.13.553	+0.352	34
03	M. Schumacher	Mercedes GP W02	1.14.537	+1.336	35
04	M. Webber	Red Bull RB7	1.14.584	+1.383	44
05	P. Maldonado	Williams FW33	1.14.860	+1.659	47
06	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso STR6	1.15.107	+1.906	31
07	T. Glock	Virgin VR-01	1.15.613	+2.412	67
08	F. Massa	Ferrari F150	1.15.650	+2.449	12
09	S. Perez	Sauber C30	1.16.198	+2.997	33
10	N. Karthikeyan	HRT F110	1.16.997	+3.796	35
11	R. Kubica	Lotus Renault R31	1.27.813	+14.612	13
12	J. Trulli	Team Lotus T128	1.43.305	+20.104	17