Fernando Alonso’s championship lead unexpected for Pat Fry – Formula 1 news
Pat Fry, the technical director of Ferrari has expressed that he did not expect any of the team’s drivers leading the championship after the opening two races held at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia and Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia.
Fernando Alonso took an amazing victory in the second GP on the wet track and secured an impressive fifth place finish at the season opener even after struggling during the qualifying.
The Spaniard is currently leading the drivers’ championship with 35 on which Fry said, “I certainly wasn’t expecting to have one driver leading the championship. From quite early on in testing, we realised we had quite a few issues we needed to sort out.
Everyone at the factory has been working hard at that, as we still have a long way to go. I think our dry qualifying performance is still around 8 tenths off the best while we want to be the best ourselves. Damp low grip conditions suit our car and flatter
some of the issues we have with the F2012 at the moment. You could see that in Melbourne on Friday and again in the race in Malaysia.”
On the other hand, Alonso’s teammate, Felipe Massa has been unable to deliver a good performance in the first two races of the season.
Moreover, there have been a lot of speculations about the replacement of the Brazilian driver in the Italian team with Sergio Perez of Sauber who secured an incredible second podium finish in the second race after following Alonso.
Nonetheless, the team principal of Ferrari, Stefano Domenicali said that they are ready to give everything to Massa which he will need to improve his performance in the season ahead.
Besides, Massa also changed his plan of going to his home in Brazil to meet with his family and he headed towards the team’s factory at Maranello in order to work with the engineers to recognise the deficiencies in his performance and to take the necessary
steps to improve his performance.
In addition, Fry said that they are working on certain areas which still need improvements for the upcoming races.
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