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BMW will be key to title fight - Ferrari boss

Ferrari's new team principal Stefano Domenicali was a relieved man after Kimi Raikkonen helped the team bounce back and claim victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix. However, behind his Ferrari was not a McLaren as the team expected before the start of the season, but a very competitive BMW at the hands of Robert Kubica. 

"We have seen that BMW also had a great weekend," Domenicali noted. "We need to respect them and we will for sure they will be in the middle of the field for sure in order to take points from us and from McLaren, so we need to have a lot of respect for them."

"The championship will be harder because they will be taking points from us," he added. "As we said at the beginning of the season, the championship this year is very very long and the fact that we will have one more competitor that shows that they are good, for sure is an added element to take into consideration. Today, honestly, we were very strong, we took it very easy in the last part of the race because we wanted to save the car and bring it home because it was so important for us to take the chequered flag."

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