Fiat boss calls for Ferrari to improve this year

Fiat chairman John Elkann (above) has joined Sergio Marchionne in admitting Ferrari will get off to a difficult start in 2015, but expects the team to improve as the season progresses.

Amid the Maranello marque's revolutionary shake-up, new president Marchionne, also head of the Fiat-Chrysler parent, admitted Ferrari can only expect to put in better performances towards the end of the forthcoming championship.

Now, the New York-born Elkann, Fiat-Chrysler chairman and the grandson of the great patriarch Gianni Agnelli, has been quoted by La Repubblica: "Ferrari is working hard."

"We all know where we start from, but the important thing this year is to show the rate of improvement. The important thing is to improve," Elkann, 38, reiterated.