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Montezemolo explains Ferrari's performance
27 April 2009Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo travelled to Bahrain this weekend to witness the Italian car manufacturer's Formula 1 team. According to the Italian there are a number of reasons why Ferrari has had such a poor start of the season and one of them being the badly written rules.
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In Bahrain Di Montezemolo faced the press and tried to explain Ferrari's terrible start of the season. "We have seen very badly written rules," Montezemolo said. "They are what I call grey rules, with different interpretations. And if teams that have won the last three world championships, like Renault, McLaren and Ferrari, an important team and car manufacturer like BMW and even Red Bull, have made one interpretation, it means that the rules are not so clear. So very unclear rules means different interpretations, means polemics and different cars in the field.
"We have three different F1s on the grid. We have F1 competition between cars with KERS, F1 competition between cars with no KERS and a different floor, and thirdly competitors with no KERS and no floor. I think this is bad, and it is one of the reasons why unfortunately we are not competitive and we are forced to invest time and extra money at such a difficult moment, to make heavy modifications to our car.
"The second reason is that we have started late to work hard on the new car. And this was a pity, particularly in a year in which the rules have been completely new. It is not, in other words, an evolution of last year's car, and this is a second reason why we have not been competitive. And the third reason is that I think that inside the team there has been a little bit too much of a presumptuous approach. Sometimes by putting your head down in the ground is useful to looking ahead, but having said that sometimes having your whole head, feet, everything in the ground is better. So I think these are the main reasons. We are working hard and I have a big confidence in our team. I am sure that we will go back very soon - not immediately, but soon."
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