Ferrari S 800Th Grand Prix Provides Little to Celebrate

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FERRARI’S 800TH GRAND PRIX PROVIDES LITTLE TO CELEBRATE

Celebrating Scuderia Ferrari’s eight hundredth Grand Prix at the Turkish round at the weekend (30 May 2010) in glory was always going to be difficult with Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso starting from eighth and twelfth places on the grid respectively and so it proved, as The Brazilian came home seventh and the Spaniard one place behind his team-mate.

“It was a very boring race for me, from start to finish, but it was also very difficult,” said Massa at the finish. “I was always stuck behind Kubica and the two Mercedes, who were running at a similar pace to me. Very often I managed to get close, but I never had a real chance of overtaking Robert. I knew that, starting from eighth, it would be tough and so it proved. Now we must stay calm and try and quickly improve the car, starting with the very next race in Canada. Here we lacked performance, especially in the fast corners. The rain? The few drops that fell in the final laps had no affect on my driving.” Alonso was no happier with the team’s performance.

“It was a case of damage limitation in what was a very difficult weekend for us, “he said. “Our aim in this championship is to fight with McLaren and Red Bull for the podium, definitely not with a Renault for eighth place, with all due respect to my former team. We have to improve our performance: in Valencia we will have an important update on the car, which we hope will put us back to where we should be. I am convinced that right from Canada things will be better, because the track characteristics should better suit our car. The hierarchy in the field can change from race to race, as we saw in Monaco, where we had the potential to

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- 2 - fight for victory. At the end, I attacked Petrov and I hope the two points this brought me could turn out to be useful come the end of the year: I am sorry he got a puncture that stopped him finishing in the points, because he drove a good race. Despite everything, we are still in a good position to fight for the title. However, now is the time to react.”

The race was dominated by McLaren, with Lewis Hamilton winning from Jenson Button, but only after the two leading Red Bulls of Webber and Vettel collided, forcing the German to retire and the Australian to move down to third for the final podium position. Today’s result sees Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro lie in third place in the Constructor’s Championship. In very high temperatures, the cars formed up on the grid in a heat haze and when the lights went out, Webber led from pole, Vettel briefly got ahead of Button, but the McLaren retook his starting position of second on the opening lap and then began closing right up to the lead Red Bull. The two F10s were still in their original starting positions. Behind the leading three on lap 3, came Button, Schumacher, Rosberg, Kubica, Massa, Petrov, Sutil, Kobayashi, Alonso, De La Rosa, Alguersuari, Liuzzi, Barrichello, Trulli, Kovalainen, Senna, Glock, Chandock, Di Grassi, Hulkenberg and Buemi last, having already pitted to change tyres after an opening lap incident. The gaps around the two Ferraris were fairly constant in the early stages — Felipe trailing Kubica by 0.7s and Fernando 0.6 behind eleventh placed Kobayashi. The duel for the lead was still going on, Hamilton only 0.4 behind Webber, with Vettel a further two seconds down. Kobayashi was the first to pit to change tyres, coming in on lap 10, thus promoting Fernando to eleventh, but only briefly as the Spaniard made his stop next time round. Petrov, Sutil and De La Rosa all changed tyres on lap 12. Felipe pitted on lap 13, as did Kubica and Liuzzi. Vettel came in from third on lap 14, followed by Schumacher and Alguersuari. The two leaders came in together on lap 15 and left in the same OFFICIAL FERRARI AND MASERATI IMPORTER AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND M

- 3 - order, with Hamilton not having the best pit stop and dropping behind Vettel. Button was the last of the lead group to change tyres on lap 17, which meant that the newly established order on lap 18 was Webber, Vettel, with Hamilton trying to make up for his poor stop, then Button, Schumacher, Rosberg, Kubica, with Felipe still in eighth, while the run of pit stops saw Fernando move up into the points in tenth place. Both Ferrari men were having lonely races, not particularly close to the car ahead of them, nor threatened by anyone behind.

All the excitement was at the front, as the top three were all within 1.3 seconds, Webber, almost a second ahead of team-mate Vettel, who had Hamilton breathing down his neck. In fourth place, Button was just over a second behind the other McLaren and then came a big 25 second gap to Schumacher in fifth place, who had his Mercedes team-mate Rosberg behind him. This had an effect on Felipe’s race as he trailed Kubica who was stuck behind the second of the Mercedes: the three of them and Petrov in the second Renault were in a train, with Alonso 10th over two seconds down on this group. Lap 28 marked the halfway distance by which time Fernando had closed the gap to Petrov to 0.6, as Rosberg continued to slow those directly behind him. At the front, the order was still Webber, Vettel, Hamilton, with Button not far behind, but at this point, the interest switched to skies as it seemed there was a strong chance of rain making its first appearance of the weekend. With 20 laps remaining, Felipe had dropped back a bit from seventh placed Kubica, while Fernando was now glued to Petrov’s gearbox. There was drama on lap 40 at the front, as Vettel tried to pass Webber, the two Red Bulls collided and spun off. Vettel retired immediately, but Webber continued in third place behind Hamilton and Button who now led for McLaren. This promoted Felipe and Fernando to seventh and ninth respectively. Webber pitted for a new nose as a few drops of rain appeared but he still maintained third spot. With ten laps remaining the McLaren duo produced a spectacular fight OFFICIAL FERRARI AND MASERATI IMPORTER AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND M

- 4 - as Button the 2009 world champion got ahead of Hamilton, the 2008 title holder, but it did not last long and the places were reversed again a bit further on the lap. Having pursued Petrov all race long, Fernando finally got past him to move up to seventh on lap 54. At the flag, the order was Hamilton, Button, Webber on the podium, followed by Schumacher, Rosberg, Kubica, Felipe, Fernando, Sutil and Kobayashi tenth for the final point.

“This was definitely a very poor weekend for us and it’s a shame we were unable to celebrate our 800th Grand Prix in a worthy manner,” said Ferrari Team Director, Stefano Domenicali. “We did not have the performance level we expected and we were definitely inferior to the two teams which dominated the Turkish weekend. We are at the level of the second group of drivers; those who were fighting throughout the Grand Prix, all within a few seconds of one another. But we know what an influence qualifying has on the final result and yesterday we struggled even more than usual in this area. This afternoon, we did what we could: Felipe didn’t make any mistakes and Fernando managed to make up a few places with the pit stop and by passing Petrov. Now we must make a step forward to close the performance gap: our engineers are capable and ready, as they have shown so often and I am sure they will be able to do it again, improving the performance of the F10. We are entering the crucial phase of the championship and we have to do everything to tackle it in the best possible shape.”

Turkish GP – 30 May 2010

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Ten points was the meagre tally for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro on the day of its eighth hundredth Formula 1 Grand Prix. Felipe Massa finished the race in seventh place, just ahead of his team-mate Fernando Alonso. Having started from eighth on the grid, Felipe stayed in this position almost throughout, until he inherited one place thanks to the misfortune of others. Fernando maintained his twelfth place at the end of the first lap and made up a few in the run of pit stops. Then, he was right behind Petrov for much of the race, attacking on lap 54 thus taking eighth place. After this race, the Spanish driver is fourth in the Drivers’ classification, while his team-mate is sixth. The Scuderia is third in the Constructors’ championship..

Turkish Grand Prix – Race results OFFICIAL FERRARI AND MASERATI IMPORTER AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND M

1. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 58 laps 1hr 28m 47.620s 2. Jenson Button Britain McLaren-Mercedes +00m 02.6s 3. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault +00m 24.2s 4. Michael Schumacher Germany Mercedes-Mercedes +00m 31.1s 5. Nico Rosberg Germany Mercedes-Mercedes +00m 32.2s 6. Robert Kubica Poland Renault-Renault +00m 32.8s 7. Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari-Ferrari +00m 36.6s 8. Fernando Alonso Spain Ferrari-Ferrari +00m 46.5s 9. Adrian Sutil Germany Force India-Mercedes +00m 49.0s 10. Kamui Kobayashi Japan BMW Sauber-Ferrari +01m 05.6s 11. Pedro de la Rosa Spain BMW Sauber-Ferrari +01m 05.9s 12. Jaime Alguersuari Spain Toro Rosso-Ferrari +01m 07.8s 13. Vitantonio Liuzzi Italy Force India- Mercedes +1 lap 14. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Williams-Cosworth +1 lap 15. Vitaly Petrov Russia Renault-Renault +1 lap 16. Sebastien Buemi Switzerland Toro Rosso-Ferrari +1 lap 17. Nico Hulkenberg Germany Williams-Cosworth +1 lap 18. Timo Glock Germany Virgin-Cosworth +3 laps 19 Lucas di Grassi Brazil Virgin-Cosworth +3 laps 20. Karun Chandhok India HRT-Cosworth +6 laps

Rtd Bruno Senna Brazil HRT-Cosworth 46 laps completed Rtd Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 39 laps completed Rtd Heikki Kovalainen Finland Lotus-Cosworth 33 laps completed Rtd Jarno Trulli Italy Lotus-Cosworth 32 laps completed

Fastest lap:

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F1 DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP 2010 (after round 7 of 19) POSITION DRIVER TEAM POINTS 1 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 93 2 Jenson Button Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 88 3 Lewis Hamilton Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 84 4 Fernando Alonso Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 79 5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing 78 6 Felipe Massa Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 67 = Robert Kubica Renault F1 Team 67 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP Petronas 66 9 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP Petronas 34 10 Adrian Sutil Force India F1 Team 22 11 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India F1 Team 10 12 Rubens Barrichello AT&T Williams 7 13 Vitaly Petrov Renault F1 Team 6 14 Jaime Alguersuari Scuderia Toro Rosso 3 15 Sebastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso 1 = Nico Hulkenberg AT&T Williams 1 = Kamui Kobayashi Sauber 1 18 Pedro de la Rosa Sauber 0 = Jarno Trulli Lotus F1 Racing 0 = Heikki Kovalainen Lotus F1 Racing 0 = Karun Chandhok Hispania Racing Team 0 = Bruno Senna Hispania Racing Team 0 = Timo Glock Virgin Racing 0 = Lucas di Grassi Virgin Racing 0

F1 CONSTRUCTORS' CHAMPIONSHIP 2010 (after round 7 of 19) POSITION TEAM POINTS 1 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 172 2 Red Bull Racing 171 3 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 146 4 Mercedes GP Petronas 100 5 Renault F1 Team 73 6 Force India F1 Team 32 7 AT&T Williams 8 8 Scuderia Toro Rosso 4 9 Sauber 1 10 Lotus F1 Racing 0 = Hispania Racing Team 0 = Virgin Racing 0 OFFICIAL FERRARI AND MASERATI IMPORTER AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND M

The F1 2010 Calendar DATES GRAND PRIX Ferrari Positions Mar 14 Bahrain, Sakhir Alonso:1st Massa: 2nd Mar 28 Australia, Melbourne Massa: 3rd Alonso: 4th Massa: 7th Alonso: Apr 04 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar DNF Apr 18 China, Shanghai Alonso 4th Massa 9th May 09 Spain, Catalunya Alonso 2nd Massa 6th May 16 Monaco, Monte Carlo Massa 4th Alonso 6th May 30 Turkey, Istanbul Massa 7th Alonso 8th Jun 13 Canada, Montreal Jun 27 Europe, Valencia Jul 11 Britain, Silverstone Jul 25 Germany, Hockenheim Aug 01 Hungary, Budapest Aug 29 Belgium, Spa-Francorchamps Sep 12 Italy, Monza Sep 26 Singapore, Singapore Oct 10 Japan, Suzuka Oct 24 Korea, Yeongam Nov 07 Brazil, Sao Paulo Nov 14 Abu Dhabi, Yas Marina Circuit

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