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Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa spoke on Thursday (7th May), ahead of the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona on Sunday (10th May).

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SOUNDBITE (English) Felipe Massa, Williams Martini driver (on Barcelona):

"I feel good, I'm really looking forward to Barcelona, it's a fantastic track, but also after three weeks break, we have some new configurations in the car. I am really looking forward to having a fantastic race here, to finish and to fight, hopefully for the podium, and to put our car and us, the drivers on the podium in our very nice Martini stripes."

SOUNDBITE (English) Felipe Massa, Williams Martini driver (on this season):

"I think this season, we are having a good performance, we are fighting Mercedes and Ferrari. We are the third team for the moment. I am fifth in the championship. Big fight, for sure there's a lot to do. Some competitive team fighting with us but I think it's going well. I hope that maybe from Barcelona we can improve our performance and can fight even better with these team, not forgetting the teams that are behind us. But I'm really looking forward to that."

SOUNDBITE (English) Valtteri Bottas, Williams Martini driver (on this season's car):

"This season the car we have is definitely better than last year's car but everybody else improved as well and Ferrari made a bigger step than we expected really. They are now really close to Mercedes. At this moment we are quite clearly the third-quickest team, but it is a long season. Like last season we could really improve a lot during the season. The goal is the same, our aim is to try to challenge Mercedes and Ferrari at the end of the season."