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Ferrari boss wary of rivals

I don't think it's correct to say that we dominated because if you look at the championship, the situation is very close." That was the view of Ferrari's team principal Stefano Domenicali after Felipe Massa's win for his team in the Turkish Grand Prix outside Istanbul on Sunday.

"It was important for us to react after the first Grand Prix in Australia, with only one point scored," explained Domenicali, for whom Sunday's win was a welcome 43rd birthday present, "But once again, it's not dominating. Today's race shows that our competitors are very very close."

Indeed, Domenicali thinks that the next two races in Monaco and Canada will see the competition become stronger. "I think we will need to react for these two races because last year was very difficult for us. We have prepared the race with a different approach, we will also see next week in Paul Ricard where we have some tests to see if what we have prepared is going in the right way.

"By the way, I think that not only McLaren will be strong. I am expecting Renault and BMW of course to be strong again, above all on the track where qualifying can be different. You can be aggressive but then even if you run longer at that circuit, everything will be different, so I think Monte Carlo will be a very important race for everyone.

"I'm expecting the others - not only McLaren but BMW, Renault - to be very aggressive there. So we need to think very carefully how to approach qualifying because that, for sure, will affect the race more than at other tracks, so it's two weeks of very hard work to try to see how we think we need to work and also how we think the others will attack us, above all in qualifying."

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