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Ferrari has doubts about latest race car
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February 27, 2013, Wednesday
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FERRARI is unlikely to have the fastest car when the Formula One season starts in Australia next month but the team hopes to be close enough for Fernando Alonso to make the difference, according to team principal Stefano Domenicali.
"The situation at the moment seems to be alright, alright with the program that we have," the Italian said at a Motor Sport magazine Hall of Fame event in London late on Monday.
"The target is to be close together with the leading cars... I would be very surprised if it was the quickest (car) at the first race. But if we are all close together in a couple of tenths, then the season is really long and everything is possible."
Ferrari started last season with a car that was tricky to drive and some way off the pace, but Alonso kept them in the hunt with some remarkable drives while the team pulled out all the stops to narrow the performance gap.
By mid-season, the Spaniard had a comfortable lead in the championship that was eroded in the latter half by a resurgent Sebastian Vettel who reeled off a string of wins for Red Bull.
The end result was Vettel's third successive title but the German and Alonso were still fighting for it all the way to the final race in Brazil.
Domenicali said the situation was very different from February 2012, when Brazilian Felipe Massa first tested the F2012 and rang Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo to tell him the bad news.
"The situation at the moment seems to be alright, alright with the program that we have," the Italian said at a Motor Sport magazine Hall of Fame event in London late on Monday.
"The target is to be close together with the leading cars... I would be very surprised if it was the quickest (car) at the first race. But if we are all close together in a couple of tenths, then the season is really long and everything is possible."
Ferrari started last season with a car that was tricky to drive and some way off the pace, but Alonso kept them in the hunt with some remarkable drives while the team pulled out all the stops to narrow the performance gap.
By mid-season, the Spaniard had a comfortable lead in the championship that was eroded in the latter half by a resurgent Sebastian Vettel who reeled off a string of wins for Red Bull.
The end result was Vettel's third successive title but the German and Alonso were still fighting for it all the way to the final race in Brazil.
Domenicali said the situation was very different from February 2012, when Brazilian Felipe Massa first tested the F2012 and rang Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo to tell him the bad news.
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