Ferrari has ruled out leaving Italy as it bids to end a seven-year championship drought.<\/p>\n
Having faltered at the start of the new turbo V6 era, the Maranello marque has undergone a radical shake-up ahead of what new president Sergio Marchionne admits will be yet another difficult campaign in 2015.<\/p>\n
In the late 80s, Ferrari made a bold bid for competitiveness by signing designer John Barnard and letting him work for the team from an English base.<\/p>\n
More recently, the iconic team has struggled to similarly woo F1’s top designers like Adrian Newey, and so speculation of the return to having a UK base has re-emerged.<\/p>\n
It would also allow Ferrari to benefit from F1’s so-called ‘Motorsport Valley’, where eight of the 11 teams that began the 2014 season are based.<\/p>\n
But Marchionne has ruled it out.<\/p>\n
“Ferrari is Italy,” he is quoted by Speed Week, “and this exclusivity will be untouched.<\/p>\n
“A Ferrari must be built in Italy — anything else would be blasphemy,” Marchionne insisted.<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old Italian-Canadian is famous for having revived not only Fiat but also Chrysler, and now he is also heading Ferrari in its period of turmoil.<\/p>\n
“I have already simplified my life because I have only three phones,” he laughed.\u00a0 “But it’s true — at the moment I live predominantly on planes.”<\/p>\n
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