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Massa blames traffic for unexpected Q1 elimination
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Felipe Massa will start tomorrow's Spanish Grand Prix from a low P18 after the Brazilian blamed traffic for his botched Q1 run. It was the Brazilian's worst qualifying performance since Russia in 2014. "There were slow cars going out of the garages in front of me on my lap, and then we didn't have time to go again," explained the Williams driver. "For sure we didn't take the right approach and procedure to go out with enough time on the first run, traffic happened and the n we could not go again. It was really frustrating." Speaking to Britain's Channel 4 from the Williams pit wall at the time of Massa's elimination, technical director Pat Symonds...
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