Mattiacci far from satisfied with Ferrari

(Scuderia Ferrari SpA via Twitter)

Scuderia Ferrari team principal Marco Mattiacci is far from happy with how the Italian team has performed so far this season which continued at the weekend's Canadian Grand Prix where Fernando Alonso finished the race in 6th place while Kimi Raikkonen finished the race in 10th place. In the aftermath of the Canadian Grand Prix, Mattiacci said:

'The final result is definitely not satisfactory, far from it, I would ask the team to take a long hard look at what they are doing and work together, putting in maximum effort so that our drivers can fight for more ambitious results.'

The teams poor performance came despite the fact that both Mercedes driver's struggled with issues in their cars. In fact, Lewis Hamilton was forced to retire from the race with a rear brake failure which was caused by overheating discs during his pit-stop's. Rosberg had a similar issue but managed to get his car home in second place to extend his lead of Hamilton.

Speaking to the official Ferrari Formula website, Mattiacci said: 

'We are very angry with ourselves, but we have no intention of giving up. The Canadian circuit definitely didn't suit us, given that it highlighted the strong points of some of our competitors and, on top of that, not everything went right either, given that we started from too far back and the others improved more than we did.'

He went on to say: 

'On the positive side of this weekend though, everyone wants to fight back, starting with our drivers, Kimi and Fernando, who are both extremely tenacious guys, competent and competitive and they know how to work as a team to point us in the direction of the areas that are a priority in our development programme.'

Kimi Raikkonen is convinced that the team can turn the situation around after their difficult start to the season and gone on to score some good results later in the season.

Ferrari also had a troubled season in 2013 after the Italian team had problems correlating their wind tunnel data to their performances on track so they will be hoping to see a big improvement in performance in the coming Grand Prix starting in Austria in just under two weeks time.

©Ben Johnston 2014