I mean why would anyone be happy if his team has already taken three wins in seven races but still trails by a considerable number of points? Ferrari’s president, Luca di Montezemolo, of course, should be unhappy. First of all, after a hat trick at the first race of the season, Ferrari’s Finnish Kimi Raikkonen has suddenly gone cold. So cold in fact that at the last four races of current season, the Finn failed to achieve a podium finish.
With a lackluster performance from the highest paid Formula One driver should cause Montezemolo to be “unhappy”. Even with a car that could outrun a sports car equipped with an Iceman cold air intake or an Injen cold air intake for that matter, the Finn seems to have lost his momentum after his win at the Australian Grand Prix.
Another disappointment for Ferrari is the disqualification met by Felipe Massa at the Canadian Grand Prix. After a back-to-back win at the Bahrain and Spanish Grands Prix, the Brazilian only finished third at the Monaco Grand Prix. After his disqualification at the Canadian Grand Prix, he only finished third at the United States Grand Prix.
But it seems that Montezemolo is unhappy with the rules in Formula One. “They need to change the rules on overtaking; I don’t like the rules on the safety car that seemed to play roulette in Monte Carlo,” said the Ferrari president.
Despite being behind by 35 points in the constructors’ championship standing, Ferrari still believed that they have a car that can put up a fight against the McLaren cars. Of course, they would have to contend with the consistency of the rookie sensation Lewis Hamilton. The young newcomer has taken seven podium finishes in his budding Formula One career. At the first race of the season he finished behind Raikkonen and teammate Alonso. From the second through the fifth race of the season, Hamilton finished second. And at the sixth and seventh races, the young British driver took back-to-back wins.
Montezemolo has this to say about the gap between them and McLaren: “We are talking about two or three fractions of a second. We have to improve on these milliseconds here and there in order to be competitive. Now we have to recover the competitiveness that we have lost in the last two months. We have two strong drivers and we have very good competitors and we must not forget in the first four races we were strong.”