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Ferrari will fight back this weekend - team boss

The tenth round of this year's world championship takes place on Sunday at the Hockenheimring, with Formula 1 visiting the famous track for the first time since 2006. Last week saw another unusual statistic, as it was the first time an official F1 test session had taken place at Hockenheim since the Nineties and only one member of the Ferrari test team had been present back then.

Technically, the three day test went reasonably well, with the squad completing its entire planned programme: this included testing some minor aero updates as well as new mechanical components. Both Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa were happy with the balance of the F2008, feeling they had established a good basis from which to start work this coming Friday morning.

"Now we embark on the second half of the season, after a positive first half, given that our two drivers, along with one another, are jointly leading the Drivers' classification, while the Scuderia heads the Constructors' Championship," said Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali. "However, while we can only be happy with this situation, we know we missed several opportunities to score more points. In pure performance terms, the team, the drivers and the car have proven to be competitive at all circuits and in every track condition, but for a variety of unusual reasons, we have not always found ourselves in a position to capitalise on this. With this in mind, we have analysed all those reasons and reached the conclusion that we have to pay even closer attention to ever single detail. Methods for doing this have occupied our time in Maranello since the last race."

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