Montezemolo: Reacting to a Winter programme that didn’t live up to our targets

Mar.8 (PVM) Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo emerged from a briefing with Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali and senior engineers believing that his team were doing all they could to turn around a Winter development programme which produced a below par car for 2012.

Returning from the Geneva Motor Show, Montezemolo dropped in at the Ferrari headquarters, in Maranello, for a crisis meeting. Afterwards he revealed, “I found a team that is very concentrated and determined. I saw in Domenicali and our engineers a great desire to show what they’re worth and to react to a Winter programme that didn’t live up to our targets."

Although the Ferrari F2012 has been 'complex' and below par throughout testing, Montezemolo believes that only the first qualifying session at the season opener, in Australia, will reveal the true pecking order in F1 currently.

"We will only discover the truth about where we stand compared to the others after Saturday’s qualifying session in Melbourne - today we can only make assumptions. No matter how it goes in Melbourne, I would like to remind everyone that this will be the longest championship in the history of F1 and we certainly won’t be able to draw conclusions after just one race,” concluded the Ferrari boss.