Ferrari can't catch Red Bull - Alonso
By Jay
June 1 2010
Fernando Alonso is starting to lose confidence in the Ferrari team and its development pace with the season almost half-way through.
Team boss, Stefano Domenicali has promised to bring in huge updates at the Valencia GP, which he is confident of bringing the car on par with the Red Bulls.
Rumours have also suggested that Ferrari are in fact planning updated exhaust a la Red Bull. This looks to be in the right direction rather than focussing on the f-duct development which saw their investment go down the drain with no improvements.
However, Alonso it seems is not impressed with all this. Speaking to La Razon, he said “We know that McLaren and Red Bull are very far away and we don’t know if that’s enough. We have to work hard.”
"We don’t know how long it is going to take, but the truth is that we are almost 8 tenths from Red Bull and 6 or 7 tenths from McLaren, and these developments (for Valencia) are not going to give us that much.”
Ferrari are known for the ability to develop car faster during the season, but somehow this season their technical team seem to be not headed in the right direction.
The team that started with the best race pace are suddenly stuck at the development stage, with all others including McLaren, Mercedes and even Force India showing much more improvement since the start of the season.
Domenicali speaking at the team’s usual Monday debrief said, “We have to react immediately and show what we can do. The ability to develop the car has always been a strong point for Ferrari and there is no reason why that should not be the case now: the people are the same, as are our work methods."
It remains to be seen whether this last ditch effort by the red team would make any difference.
Their lead driver doesn't think so, or is he just making us believe the opposite?
All this would be clear by Valencia, while the team is gearing up for the next GP at Montreal. A track, with slow corners, that should definitely suit their car.
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