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New Ferrari boss urges calm
17 March 2008Ferrari's new team principal, Stefano Domenicali put a brave face on his team's performance in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne. Neither car took the chequered flag, but Kimi Raikkonen was eventually classified eighth although both his and teammate Felipe Massa's cars were stopped by engine problems.
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"It was very tough, no doubt," admitted Domenicali. "The result speaks for itself. Unfortunately it was a dreadful weekend. Nothing went as planned, so it was difficult. But if you remember in 2006 we had a similar start with the two DNFs and we were able to catch up again.
"We weren't phenomenal guys before this race and we are not stupid after it, so we really need to analyse in all the details what has happened. And of course the main concern is to understand the reliability problems. We had two engine failures so this is the main issue to understand."
Domenicali explained that the team didn't know what happened to Raikkonen's engine. "We need to understand the problem. We knew that the engine was ready to finish, but at that stage, looking at the number of laps and fighting for points, but unfortunately we didn't finish. With such a disastrous weekend, if we score one point it's really one plus."
Asked how he expected the team to react for next week's Malaysian Grand Prix, Domenicali said "you can see that we can have the chance to react straight away. And of course we need to be very careful in all the analysis of all the details. And on the other hand we need to understand if we have the time to fix the problems that we had. That's it."
"We need to stay very cool and not overreact because that makes the difference," he concluded.
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