Maurizio Arrivabene struggled to hide his anger after the Canadian grand prix.<\/p>\n
With Sebastian Vettel struggling through the field following reliability problems and a penalty, Ferrari’s podium challenge was left to teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who is pushing to have his contract extended for 2016.<\/p>\n
Boss Arrivabene already had the Finn on notice to up his game in qualifying, and Raikkonen was on course for a sure podium in Montreal when he spun.<\/p>\n
“It may be a case of contributory negligence,” Arrivabene said, “as he said the same thing happened last year.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, Raikkonen suggested the problem might be related to a post-pitstop engine setting issue, but he insisted “something odd” happened rather than a basic driving error.<\/p>\n
But when asked for his first thoughts after the race, Arrivabene could not contain his fury.<\/p>\n
Asked by Sky Italia to give his thoughts, he said: “I’d better not say what I am thinking right know.<\/p>\n
“We have thrown away a podium, that’s the truth.\u00a0 There are no excuses,” Arrivabene charged.<\/p>\n
“The podium may seem boring now, but being off the podium is even worse,” he added.<\/p>\n
Ferrari is said to have added almost 30 horse power with its Canada engine upgrade, and Arrivabene said: “No excuses, I expected us to be better with the update, but instead we are further back.”<\/p>\n
Worse still for Raikkonen, one of his chief rivals for the 2016 Ferrari seat – Williams’ Valtteri Bottas – inherited the podium place.<\/p>\n
The spin was also in the rare presence of Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne, who was asked about Raikkonen’s future just before the start of the race.<\/p>\n
“First, we have the pleasure to see him race, and from there we will decide,” Marchionne said.<\/p>\n
Asked if he thinks he could have even challenged the two Mercedes this weekend with a normal grid position, German Vettel answered: “Unfortunately we will never know.<\/p>\n
“But we didn’t expect any miracles with this update.\u00a0 In some races we are closer, but in others further away, as Mercedes are not stupid and they also make progress.”<\/p>\n
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