Ferrari still far behind

still catching up
By Tifosa
April 11 2012

Technical director Pat Fry has said that Ferrari is still way off the pace and that Fernando Alonso’s victory in Sepang was due to the Spaniard's brilliance as well as favorable weather.

“I certainly wasn't expecting to have one driver leading the championship,” said Fry. “From quite early on in testing, we realized 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 0.8s 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.”

He also promised new parts for this weekend’s Chinese GP. “We are constantly working on improving the issues we have. New parts are coming through and we are trying to get them to the racetrack as quickly as possible - we will have five updates for China, some are quite visible, others less so. Then there will be a bigger upgrade package for Spain.”