All Posts Tagged With: "Ferrari"

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has promised that Ferrari will work ”day and night” to improve their performance after their worst start to an F1 season since 1992.

Ferrari failed to score points in yesterday’s chaotic Malaysian Grand Prix, which followed an identical situation in Australia the week before. Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa’s races have been characterised by driver and team errors, and by reliability problems.  Read more... (352 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Scuderia in trouble after second no show of the season

Ferrari know they have to change their approach to race weekends if they are to get their championship campaign back on course.

The team has made costly mistakes in the opening races of the 2009 season which has has resulted in both their drivers failing to score a single point.  Read more... (629 words, 1 image, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Just about the only consolation Ferrari have at the moment is that their long-standing rivals McLaren aren’t fairing much better in the new order of Formula One.

One week on from seeing both their drivers retire in Melbourne the Italian team is bracing itself for more bad news after Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa qualified ninth and sixteenth for the Malaysian Grand Prix.  Read more... (605 words, 1 image, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

The two Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa this afternoon topped the Malaysian free practice timesheets. Raikkonen set the fastest time, followed by his team-mate Massa and the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel. Williams’ Nico Rosberg was fourth fastest.  Read more... (289 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Ferrari boss Luca Di Montezemolo is under no allusions that last year’s title battle with McLaren has put his team on the back foot in 2009, but he is confident the Scuderia will bounce back soon.

Ferrari had a disastrous start to the new season on Sunday with both their drivers failing to finish the Australian Grand Prix.  Read more... (316 words, 1 image, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Ferrari have admitted that they made mistakes in yesterday’s season opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

The Maranello team, whose drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen both retired from the race, said that tyres were the cause behind their failure to pick up any points.  Read more... (415 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Like many teams, Ferrari are to use a revised version of this year’s F2008 car to develop parts for next season. Code-named the F2008K, the ‘K’ believed to refer to the new KERS technology, the car will act as a halfway house between the current 2008 and radically revised 2009 regulations.  Read more... (111 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)

Stefano Domencali, team boss at Ferrari, has said that Felipe Massa’s disasterous pit-stop was caused by human error, not technical.  Read more... (390 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Ferrari have confirmed that they will be retaining the services of both test drivers Marc Gene and Luca Badoer for another season.

Badoer, who holds the dubious honour of being the driver who has competed in the most number of Formula One races (48) without scoring a single point, has been with the Ferrari team since 1997.  Read more... (113 words, 1 image, estimated 27 secs reading time)

Ferrari own goal in Singapore puts McLaren in the driving seat for title

Ferrari were left to lick their wounds in Singapore after a bungled pit stop and a mistake from Kimi Raikkonen sent the Scuderia into meltdown – and left rivals McLaren in command of both championships for the first time since April.  Read more... (583 words, 1 image, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)