Everyone knows that Formula 1 needs Ferrari to win races, they are the sport’s iconic team which is steeped in history and packed with passion, thus no surprise that the sport’s chief Bernie Ecclestone is willing the Maranello outfit to get on with it.
He told the official F1 site, “All I hope is that Ferrari get their act together and start winning races.”
As for advice, the 86 year old suggested, “What Maurizio desperately needs is a good back-up support like Mercedes have got, for example. If he had the support that Mercedes has, they would win races for sure. I am also sure that you will see a different Ferrari next year.”
Ecclestone likes to remind people that it was he who suggested Ferrari hire Frenchman Jean Todt to lead the team in the late nineties. What resulted was the team’s most successful decade in F1.
He was at it again, “When I got Jean Todt to take his position and go to Maranello, which was a bit of a risk for Jean to do, it was an all-Italian team and they were a bit concerned about taking a foreigner.”
“But I told them: when you win the championship you sure will find ancestry in Jean’s family that comes from Sicily.”
“Now it has gone back to being a very Italian team again. And it is run like an Italian team. So I don’t envy Maurizio’s job. I wouldn’t want to do it,” said Ecclestone.
Not helping Arrivabene’s cause is also the fact that this year’s SF16-H is a dire piece of kit which has done Sebastian Vettel and Kimi raikkonen no favours.
Arrivabene explained, “What was wrong in Mexico was the endemic problem that we have all year long. You remember in Baku and in Spain and Monaco, when the temperature goes up to the sky we have problems.
“We are making an analysis of that and now it is quite clear the reason why, so we are working on that,” added the Ferrari chief whose team has yet to win a race this season.
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