Stefano Domenicali: “The performance is where it should be”

Stefano Domenicali has reiterated that Ferrari has to focus on doing its own thing and not worry about the margin to Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull.

Fernando Alonso has scored more points than any other driver over the last three races, logging 61 to the 55 of Vettel and 49 of Lewis Hamilton.

However he needs to take 9-10 points a race off Vettel over the remaining nine Grands Prix to get ahead by the end of the season.

“For sure what we need to do is attack every race,” said Domenicali. “And then – not now because he’s too far from us – see where he is. The more drivers that can fight, it’s easier to score more points and try to minimise the gap. At the moment the gap is still very big.

“I am happy to see that in the last couple of races Fernando scored the most number of points. That means that we have come back with the performance that we should have. I’m expecting the second part of the season to be quite interesting for the show, for everyone, because I really feel that the Red Bull are still the strongest team, but McLaren showed today they are very good, and we were very good.

“I do not underestimate the competitors, but I’m at least very happy to see that the people have reacted and the performance is where it should be.

“Now we need go to Hungary where I don’t forget last year after the win in Germany we were one second off the pace from Red Bull, so we need to stay with our feet on the ground, and work hard and keep working on the development of the car.”

Domenicali says Ferrari’s German GP performance was even more encouraging given that the team has edged towards a wet set-up.

“Of course we were expecting rain. I don’t know if the others we were really setting up the cars for dry conditions. We took some compromises because we thought it was raining conditions. It’s even better to see with this kind of compromise the car was quite competitive. I think no one would have thought about a dry race today, to be honest.”