Massa should have been DQ'd for that! How dare he be released next to another car. That NEVER happens in F1, EVER!
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Massa, though, backed off rather than risk a second losing the race win for the second successive race weekend, and later blamed Sutil for the incident.
According to the Brazilian, the Force India driver should not have been fighting with him for track position as he was a lap down.
"It was a little bit of a shame to fight with him in the pit lane because he would have had to have let me pass," he said.
"We came so close to the wall and I had to back off which cost me a bit of time. Fortunately the gap was enough (to go on and win the race)."
Asked for more details about the pit stop the Brazilian said: "I stopped behind him on the pit stop but we left together. We were side by side and it was quite narrow so I backed off, I didn't want to take a risk."
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Then 5 seconds later Sutil got a blue flag and had to move over. At least Massa was smart enough to back off and not wreck. Was it worthy of a 10K fine? I guess I'll keep my eyes open for the rest of the season and see how many other times this happens with other teams. It seems to me this is not a rare occurrence, but maybe I am wrong.