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Massa dismisses suggestions of Red Bull advantage

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Felipe Massa does not agree with Lewis Hamilton's comments that Red Bull's car is "ridiculously" faster than the rest of the 2010 field.

After finishing third behind the Ferraris in Bahrain when Sebastian Vettel's pole-setting RB6 dropped behind with a problem, Hamilton told British reporters at the weekend that the Red Bulls enjoyed a huge performance advantage.

"The Red Bull is ridiculously faster than anyone else's car," he said. "It's insane. The downforce they had on their car last year was at some points just about double what we had. Even at the end of the year they had so much more than us, even though we had won a couple of grands prix."

But Ferrari's Massa, who finished second in Bahrain, is not as downbeat as Hamilton about the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned Red Bull.

"In testing, the Red Bull might not have been the quickest car in terms of lap times, but I had noticed their pace over the longer runs had been very strong, so its speed in Bahrain qualifying was not a surprise," he said. "Overall, we were very similar and that reinforces the need to try and improve our car at every race through the season," said the Brazilian.

Massa believes Ferrari was even quicker in Bahrain than Red Bull on the harder of the two Bridgestone tyres.

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