Williams pilot Felipe Massa says h🍬e is "surprised" he was unable to score points 💙in the inaugural Russian Grand Prix and believes the team made the wrong call by getting him to pit on the opening lap.

Massa lined-up in 18th place on the grid, having been eliminated in Q1 on Sat🍒urday due to a reliabili♕ty issue that left him down on power.

However, despite a storming start, he pitted following that first tour and while he then came back through the pac🅷k, he later got stuck behind Sergio Perez and eventually had to settle for ♐eleventh.

"To be honest, yes," Massa replied when asked if he was🦂 surprised he wasn't able to get any points.

"I was surprised because the pace of the car was very good. I passed seven cars on the opening lap and I don't know if it was the right thing to stop [at the end of the first lap] because we were already eleventh. It wasn't inside the strategy to stop straighꦏt away. I even asked the team and said we had passed many cars, but they said it was bett🧔er to stop.

"After the pace was very good and I was able to catch lots of guys and overtake so🌺 many c🦋ars - it was so easy until I got to Perez.

"It was not possible to pass him. I was behind him and the speed he had on the straight I couldn't catch him enough to 🍌risk a move. That destroyed my race. It was so many laps behind him and then he stopped and I stayed out two more laps. But my tyres were not in good shape because I had been too long behind him.

"Then I stop🍃ped and chang𓄧ed the tyres, but got back on track behind him again and he had good tyres and a better phase with good speed and so it was not possible to pass him.

"It was sꩲo easy to pass everybody - even the Toro Rossos and so many of the other cars, but not him... because of his car. He was very good and I didn't have any opportunity. He had good traction and good speed. For ꦫmy car it was not possible - that is all I can say.

"It was not nice, because I think we had the pace and a car t☂o finish in the good points and we finish ju𓃲st one position behind the points."

Asked if he could have scored, if he had done a d🌺ifferent strategy, he replied: "Ifꦑ I go again on the track and do the race again, I would stay out.

"But it is easy to say after."

Meanwhile, Massa confirmed that while he had to change♛ the engine for the race, the one used for qualifying should be okay to use again.

"It should be usable because the problem [in qualifying] was not on the engine. It was on the fuel pump, but it was better to change the engine as it is a little biꩵt complicated to change [the fuel pump] here - it is better to do that in the factory𝔍," he explained.