Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Kimi's resolutely unemotional approach serves him well"
Although Felipe Massa consummately won last year's Brazilian Grand Prix, the suspicion, going into this year's race, was that Interlagos should slightly favour McLaren over Ferrari. The bumps, you see. All season long, the MP4-22 has handled them - and high kerbs, as at Montreal and Monza - like nothing else, and Interlagos has never been renowned for its even surface.
Until this year. In time-honoured fashion they were still slapping a bit of paint on the ancient grandstands through the practice days, but the track itself had had a makeover, and the resurfacing took away a lot of the bumps.
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