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Ferrari boss sees three-way fight
08 April 2008Ferrari's new team principal Stefano Domenicali says the championship is set to be a three-way battle between his team, McLaren and BMW. Surprisingly for most, BMW has enjoyed a consistently competitive first three races of the season and leads the constructors' championship.
"As I've always said, since the beginning, I was expecting a tough championship this year, including BMW, which had already shown, during testing, that it was better than last year," Domenicali said. "I always said that and this confirms what I always thought since the beginning, that it would be a very long championship, very long. It is a classification than is closer to soccer than an F1 season, and we are three teams covered by two points."
"That shows that we cannot lose one vital step because the others can take more important points, so it will be important to keep up the pace of reliability," he added. "We must not forget that we have to keep on developing our car to the maximum, because the others will not sleep, they will be back again very strongly in Spain and I'm expecting McLaren to be back again and up to standard in Barcelona. So what we have to do is work very hard and keep our feet on the ground, concentrate and that's the way we are used to doing it: reply on the track."
So who is the toughest competitor at the moment? "Right now," said Domenicali, "I have to say that we expect it to be both McLaren and BMW because we must not over-react to anything. As always, from the pragmatic point of view, we need to consider the points. The points show that BMW is in front of us in the Constructors' championship, and in the Drivers' championship they are behind Kimi so they are all there, but I am expecting McLaren to be back on the pace again very soon."
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