Although the Maranello based team have come to Malaysia with the sole thought of washing out the Australian disaster, Ferrari are now in a deeper hole than before. Felipe Massa's grid positioning was ruined due to a mechanical error during the Saturday qualifying – the Brazilian started from 16th place – while Raikkonen was the victim of a catastrophic decision from the pit wall during the race.
While in a good position for scoring a podium finish, Raikkonen's F60 was fitted with rain tires (although the track was entirely dry). When the rain finally started pouring on the Sepang circuit, Raikkonen's tires were already destroyed and the Finn had to make an extra stop for new tires (only laps away from the first stop).
Talking about Ferrari's poor judgement calls this weekend, team principal Stefano Domenicali agreed “the errors are unacceptable” and urged his team to change their mentality as soon as possible.
“Well, of course it is not a positive weekend. It is the second one in a row and it is not good, for sure. Anyway, what we have to do is react immediately,” said Domenicali.
“The people have to take their own responsibility for things, and this is important in the moment where either from the performance point of view, and the management point of view, things are not going well. This is for sure not acceptable, and I am not accepting that.”
“So what we have to do now on one side is to work very hard to try to anticipate as much as we can, all of the development on the car. Then on the other side, on the track, we want to make sure that people with certain responsibilities are taking the right decisions in the right way, because of course this is something that we cannot accept for the future,” added the Italian official.
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