Felipe Massa is refusing to blame Formula One’s ban on electronic driver aids for his poor start to the season.
The Ferrari driver started the Malaysian Grand Prix on pole position, but spun off the track on lap 31 of the race while running second to team-mate and world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
The Brazilian also spun at the first corner of the Australian Grand Prix before colliding with Red Bull’s David Coulthard mid-way through the race – Massa retiring with an engine failure shortly afterwards.
Massa did concede that driving without electronic drivers aids such as traction control is making “life harder”, but dismissed speculation that the ban is the reason why he has yet to finish a race.
“While we have all had to get used to driving without electronic aids since the end of last season, as you will have seen in the two races so far, it does seem to have provoked more incidents, spins and off-track excursions,” he wrote in his Ferrari blog.
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