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Ferrari pleased with Toro Rosso and Spyker

The Ferrari team supplied both Scuderia Toro Rosso and the Spyker Formula 1 team this season with its customer engines. It was the first time since 2001, when Ferrari supplied the Sauber and Prost teams, that the team supplied two other F1 teams.

"The freezing of engine development has helped a lot in allowing us to provide this service, because again you are able to schedule and manage the full activity quite some time in advance," explains Ferrari's Head of Track Engineering Mattia Binotto. "We have done a great job this year and part of that is down to the engine freeze. On the other side I would say that our collaboration with both Toro Rosso and Spyker has worked very well. Also in terms of performance we made a significant step forward through the season, as can be seen especially by Toro Rosso's performance in the last couple of races. At the start of the season, life was quite difficult on the customer front because we had a very short time to prepare and work out the installation of the engine in the chassis. But with both these teams, we caught up and made some good steps forward.

The Italian car manufacturer will continue to supply both Toro Rosso and Spyker in 2008. "Now we are looking to move forward again with both teams next year," Binotto said. "We have enjoyed a good relationship and a good collaboration. Our engine guys in Maranello are very happy to have had four Ferrari engines in the top six at the last race in China. Ferrari is supplying these two other teams mainly for technical reasons, as it is a benefit to be able to run each race with six engines. The amount of feedback is important in terms of reliability and engine usage."

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