Most in depth stories I've read are showing that JV is quicker than Massa now... Sad thing is that not all are aware of this..
He should be good for BMW next year.
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excerpt from french article:
Jacques Villeneuve, who took the start in front of his teammate Felipe Massa, was betrayed by his strategy and found two places and 24 seconds behind at the finish of the Grand Prix of Italy
source: Journal de Montreal
...Good driving
Beat Zehnder, director of the operations at Sauber, was of the same opinion that Villeneuve in connection with the relative performance of Sauber.
"Our results are better than our level of performance let it guess, known as Zehnder. Our two drivers made a very beautiful race. Honestly, without their efforts, best that one could hope with everyone with the order of finish, it is 13e or 14e. "
Zehnder is conscious that it is the selected aggressive strategy for the qualification which was costly for Villeneuve. It is what explains his variation with Massa.
"As Jacques stopped very early, five laps before Felipe, we had to put nearly 80 kilos of gasoline with the first stop, explains Zehnder. During these five laps, the car of Jacques was thus 70 kilos heavier than that of Felipe and thus nearly three seconds slower. That is 15 seconds, just there. As such a long stop took three seconds longer, that explains almost all of the gap. The similar but less extreme situation at the time of the second stop explains the remainder"
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*** note: JV did finsih 24 sec behind Massa, officially...but at the end of the 2nd to last lap JV was only 12.8sec behind FM. The other 12 sec. came from cruising on the final lap(when u finish a lap down, u are listed as completing 1 lap less in the official result)
