Ferrari did not win a race this past season and the team’s big boss Sergio Marchionne is blaming a bad aero package for the team’s struggles in 2016.
Speaking to media during the Ferrari Finali Mondiali event in Daytona, Marchionne said, “The most important discovery the team has made during this season by clearly defining the gaps we have in terms of two things: one is honest performance on track, but i think more importantly, the rate of progress of the other teams.”
“I think we have seen Red Bull at the start of the 2016 season that did not have, at least on paper, the tools to take on and beat Ferrari. But by the end of the season, Red Bull effectively became a formidable competitor.”
Indeed Red Bull finished the championship with two victories, and second in the constructors’ championship behind Mercedes, while Ferrari dropped down the pecking order in the second half of the season. However improvements in performance were evident at the final few races.
Marchionne explained, “This was not due to the power unit side, it was down to the work that was done on both aero and chassis. And this pointed to one of the most significant holes in the strategic development of Ferrari in the last few years in the aero elements of our package. We will try to rectify this problem.”
“That’s not to say we don’t consider the power unit elements to be crucial, work continues on both fronts. However I think the biggest issue is that we need to recognise that the gap that exists on aero development and I think we are trying to close it as quickly as we can,” added Marchionne.
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