Stefano Domenicali takes instant action following Ferrari’s performance in Australian GP
Stefano Domenicali, Ferrari’s team principal, has declared that his team will seek measures to counter the upsetting performance at Melbourne season-opening race of Australian Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso ended up in fourth place while Felipe Massa was worse at seventh, which is believed would have been ninth if not for the exclusion of Sauber over a rear wing infringement. Ferrari slacked in the race and was unable to show the form
it had revealed in pre-season testing, during which they seemed as a strongest competitor to Red Bull.
Domenicali has rushed back to Europe to review the team’s performance ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Italian is not happy with how the weekend turned out in Albert Park and will try to work out a way to rectify the failure.
He admitted, "There is no point in denying that we leave Australia with a sense of disappointment. Our performance level was not a match for that of the best, especially one of the Red Bulls. Now we will have to study everything carefully to work out
what prevented us from being as competitive as we had expected this weekend."
Ferrari was amongst the preferred teams of the season after a sturdy run of pre-season tests. But when it came to the moment of truth the Italian leviathans had to surrender to Red Bull and McLaren.
Alonso has had a problem in transferring heat in to the front tyres; Massa had a bad qualifying performance when he spun on the last curve before ending the race.
Domenicali is of the view that F150th's down-force needs some addition to it to recover from the current conditions by the time the events in Sepang start.
"We will have to react immediately, starting with the next race in Malaysia. One of the main themes is the level of downforce at the front: we must find out why we did not get on track what was predicted by the data.”
Domenicali is also worried about how the cars have not turned out to be as reliable as they were being predicted by the tests, especially on the engine side and with the KERS.
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