Luca di Montezemolo concerned with Ferrari upgrades falling short of expectations – Formula 1 news
Team President for Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo has raised questions against the new Ferrari upgrades as they did not bring the change the engineers were expecting.
In recent races, Ferrari has been having trouble with the upgrades they have produced in the car. It was also stated that some of the new upgrades had brought out a positive result. The Ferrari team had broken the FIA induced curfew on the teams second time
in a row ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that took place this Sunday. The team has been working hard so as to provide their driver Fernando Alonso the best car against his rival Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull who is in the lead for drivers’ championship.
However, Alonso has admitted that the new updates did not work the way they should have after he came in second in the Abu Dhabi race. The updates had included new wings and diffuser but Alonso said that the improvement only measured up to hundredths of
a second rather it should have been tenths of a second.
Montezemolo has raised his own concerns as well asking as to why the new updates were not enough to make Alonso win the race.
“The weekend was hard to read that began with Saturday evening when I watched a situation that was not entirely clear. As far as Ferrari is concerned I want to understand why the new parts that we brought to the track only partially improved the performance
of the F2012, which wasn't enough to allow Alonso to fight for the very front positions on the grid despite the contrasting expectations of our engineers. Yesterday Fernando nonetheless produced his umpteenth great race of the season, in which he again gave
120% and he managed to fight for victory right to the end,” he said.
Alonso added that they had been actually expecting to leave Abu Dhabi with a huge points gap between him and Vettel but they ended up only with ten which was also after narrowing it down from thirteen. He admitted that it was a good race but Red Bull will
be coming back at them with the last two races as the rival team had suffered an unlucky disqualification in this one.
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