Fernando Alonso looks as though he is beginning to lose faith in Ferrari’s development process after admitting that the Italian team are way behind Red Bull and McLaren and their upcoming upgrades aren’t good enough.
“We know we have to improve. How long would that take? It is not known, but the truth is that we are almost eight tenths off of Red Bull and McLaren 6 or 7 [tenths] and the upcoming updates that we have do not give us this amount of pace,” Alonso told La Razon.
BBC commentator, Jonathan Legard understands that Alonso is frustrated by the lack of upgrades coming out of the Maranello factory.
“I’m told that Fernando Alonso is very frustrated by Ferrari’s rate of development. Compared to his time at McLaren in 2007, when the British team had updates for every race, Ferrari’s flow of new parts this season has been very slow, with no more than little tweaks here and there so far.”
Meanwhile it isn’t only Alonso who has his doubts. Chief designer, Nicholas Tombazis, has also admitted that the updates planned for the Valencia GP, which Stefano Domenicali described as ‘major’, won’t be enough to catch the leading two.
“In Valencia we will have a major change with many new parts,” he stated. “But, the improvement we think will not be enough to reach the level of development of the strongest [teams].”
Despite this, team principal Domenicali, is adamant the team will not give up on the 2010 season, like they did in ’09.
“We are not going to stop developing this car — we are not throwing away these races so far,” he told Spanish newspaper AS.
“We will continue working on the F10 until the end of the season.”
