Glenn Freeman

Felipe Massa was 8th, while Fernando Alonso fell in Q2 and lined up 12th on the grid.

Things didn't get that much better for them in the race, with Massa and Alonso finishing 7th and 8th, which prompted Alonso to declare that Red Bull and McLaren were very far away and that Ferrari was at Renault's level.

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali said that it was failing to keep up with the development rate of the top teams.

And he said he needed to understand why our aero department didn't bring the things that we were supposed to bring.

He said he wanted to see a reaction, not depression.

John, obviously, Alonso goes on to fight for this championship to the very end.

At this point of the season, though, did it feel like Ferrari were getting left behind?

And they were still having to adapt to life without being able to test at Fiorano whenever they wanted as well.

Going back and doing the research for this, around this time, before and after every race, there was a status update of which team.

Team X says they're not going to do an F-Duct yet.

Or Team Y says they're going to try one in practice.

And Driver A doesn't like F-Duct and doesn't want to use it.

And this one's with a hat.

We got a lot of content out of that back then as a team.

as an industry.

But we're going to get into the race now and we go straight to the reason that we're all here.

The first two thirds of the race were all about McLaren and Red Bull.

Webber led the opening stint from Hamilton, Vettel and Button.

But Vettel got ahead of Hamilton when Lewis had a slow...

pit stop Webber then had Vettel and the two McLarens right on his tail for the next 24 laps and he couldn't try to pull away from them as he was being told by the pit wall to manage his fuel he asked if Vettel was saving fuel as well but as Vettel had been running behind other cars for the whole race he hadn't burned as much as Webber had and Red Bull couldn't get Vettel to back off from behind Webber as the McLarens were right there behind them and they were quick on the straights with the F-Duct they'd pioneered