Felipe Massa qualified 10th and Valtteri Bottas 11th for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Both cars easily advanced from Q1 to Q2 after setting one timed lap each on new soft tyres, one-tenth apart, with Valtteri finishing P8 and Felipe P9. The first laps in Q2 saw both drivers qualify as high as P5 on softs. As the rest of the field crossed the line, Felipe dropped to P7 and Valtteri out of the top ten. He attempted a second lap, but didn't improve and qualified P11 - just 0.4-seconds short of progressing into Q3. In Q3, Felipe completed two flying laps. The first put him P7, but he couldn't improve on his second run and qualified in tenth position. Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering:...
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