Felipe Massa ad🌄mitted his luck was in as he finished seventh ꦯin the Monaco Grand Prix.

An incident with Marcus Ericsson𒁃 in qualᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚifying on Saturday limited Massa to 16th on the grid and left him bemoaning his recent misfortune. However, with eight cars retiring from the race in Monte Carlo, Massa said the situation worked in his favour as he was able to score solid points while team-mate Valtteri Bottas was one of those not to finish.

"Starting 16th, finishing 7th, I would have signed yesterday!" Massa said. "I had some luck todꦦay. So many things happened and I gained positions and it helped me, definitely. I think it was a good race anyway.

"Staying out [under the safety car] didn't change anything to my result in the end but the car behaved well on the supersoft tyres, so I was thinking that maybe I was going to have bad pace after th𒁏e safety car and I was pulling away, which was good. Then I got some opportunities and cars crashing in front gave me some positions so in the end it was OK."

And Massa bel🐓ieves Williams will be even more competitive come Montreal in a fortnight after the team struggled on the whole in Monaco.

"Our car was not competitive here anywa⛎y, it was not the right track for u𓆏s. So I don't think the pace that we saw here compared to the other cars is the reality for the next races. I think we can be more competitive than that."