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Massa and Sainz squabble over ruined qualifying laps

A frustrated Felipe Massa was unhappy with Carlos Sainz after Saturday's qualifying session, claiming the Renault driver deliberately ruined his run in Q3. The Williams driver will start his very last home Grand Prix from tenth, but lamented an aborted lap in the final segment of the session after stumbling on Sainz's Renault at Turn 4. "I was so happy with the car in Q1 and Q2, and unfortunately in Q3 I had a driver, Carlos Sainz, disturbing my lap on purpose, on purpose," said Massa. "And I think that's really amazing, because when you have a mistake from the engineer or maybe didn't know the car was coming, it can happen. But on purpose, no. "I was much more in front...
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