Ferrari endured a torrid race as both drivers failed to score any points despite Fernando Alonso starting in third and Felipe Massa in seventh.
A puncture saw Massa make an unscheduled pit-stop on the very first lap, dropping him down the order rapidly. Then a mistake into the final corner saw the Brazilian take to the grass before spinning into the pit-lane entry – with nowhere to go, he made yet another unscheduled stop, surprising his team.
“I don’t know what to do, but I have to find some way of getting rid of the bad luck that is following me around!
“In the last few races, everything has happened to me,” said Massa. “Today my race was soon over, when I touched with Fernando and got a puncture which dropped me to the back of the pack.”
Fernando Alonso had a poor start, losing a handful of places in the process before the stewards penalised him for cutting a corner and passing Robert Kubica in the process.
“I made a horrible start – we had some problems with the clutch – and then came the incident with Kubica which further affected my race.
“I do not wish to comment on the Stewards’ decision,” he added. “The team acted correctly but the instruction to hand back the position arrived when I had already passed another driver and in the meantime, Kubica was visibly slowing down before retiring.”
Team principal, Stefano Domenciali, went as far as to say the team are cursed.
“We seem to be really cursed at the moment, when everything that could go wrong, does.”
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