No time to celebrate - Domenicali
Ferrari team principal enjoyed the double podium at the Spanish Grand Prix, but despite the success stressed that the Scuderia has no time now to celebrate.
“There’s no time now for celebrating, even if it was right to enjoy the lovely moments yesterday which give us all a boost, but if we want to fight for the goals we set ourselves at the start of the year, we must continue to keep our nose to the grindstone.”
“The most important thing to come out of the Barcelona weekend is that the team worked cohesively, was motivated and confident in its own potential: the key to understanding how yesterday’s result came about is actually in the conviction everyone showed in their own abilities right from the start. I was very pleased to see that our strategy simulation was confirmed completely on track and that is something that adds substance to our future choices.”
Even though The Spanish race proved successful, other events, including the Bahrain Grand Prix showed that the competition is strong and ready to jump in when someone else makes a mistake. Trying to keep the team focused, Domenicali pointed out the challenge that is ahead with some very different circuits around the corner.
“From here until the end of June, we will tackle three very different circuits, where the hierarchy in pit lane could change according to what updates everyone brings to the track. We have to make the right choices, without suffering what one could call performance anxiety, which can lead to overdoing things, thus moving away from the right path. We will have to find the right compromise between trying out new components and managing the tyres which, as we have seen, is critical. Finally, we will need to push very hard on the development front, bearing in mind that, over the coming months, various teams could decide to concentrate solely on the 2014 project and this year, as never before, that will be a very important factor.”
