Ferrari say this week’s Chinese Grand Prix must be a turning point to their disastrous season and have restructured its trackside operations in a bid to stop the rot.
The Italian team has made its worst start to a season since 1992, failing to score a single point, and knows that Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen need to perform in Shanghai.
Following the debrief in Italy, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said there were a lot of angry people in the room.
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‘Angry with themselves, but very determined to react,’ he said.
The struggling world champions, who are without a point after two races, have handed team manager Luca Baldisserri’s track duties to engineer Chris Dyer.
Baldisserri has been criticised in the Italian media for his decision-making at the Malaysian GP earlier this month.
Ferrari insisted Baldisserri would play a key role in the team’s working group looking at new technologies aimed at closing the gap on F1 leaders Brawn GP.
After the Malaysia GP Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo warned his team against becoming the laughing stock of F1.
“The goal is to anticipate as much as possible the introduction of new technologies to reduce the performance gap as fast as possible, which, apart from the question of the diffuser, seems to be there,” a team statement said.
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“A working party has been set up under the coordination of Aldo Costa, which will follow the development programme at Maranello in close contact with the experience made on the track.
“A crucial element of this group is Luca Baldisserri. The Scuderia team manager will follow the single-seater’s development step by step, while his role at the track will be covered by Chris Dyer.
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