Massa Claims Alonso Is No Better Than He’s Had Before: Is He Right?

In moralistic terms the worst aspect of this year's Formula 1 season was the denial of victory for Felipe Massa exactly a year after his Hungarian accident. Here was a driver who had taken a defiant stance in the face of adversity. When the piece of Brawn went inches from his eye he could have thrown in the towel then and there. Yet he chose not to. He did, however, find himself partnered in his full return with double world champion Fernando Alonso as a teammate. And today Felipe proclaims that he will not be another Rubens Barrichello for Ferrari. In his view, when the 2011 season begins he will be an equal to the man who now seems to spearhead Ferrari's hopes of driver glory. One of Massa's most adamant proclamations is the mention of Al...

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