Ferrari is not prepared to give up on its 2010 car, despite falling off the pace last weekend in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Fernando Alonso failed to make the Q3 qualifying session at Istanbul Park, while Felipe Massa was the Maranello team’s highest placed finisher — behind the Red Bulls, the McLarens, the Mercedes and the Renault of Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s F10 will feature a specific low-downforce bodywork package in Montreal next weekend, before a big update of changes is debuted at Valencia later this month.<\/p>\n
Spain’s AS newspaper believes the Valencia update will include a major repackaging of the rear end and exhaust system.<\/p>\n
But team boss Stefano Domenicali denies that if the upgrade fails to pull Ferrari back to the front of the grid, Ferrari will begin to focus on 2011.<\/p>\n
“We are not going to stop developing this car — we are not throwing away these races so far,” he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Even though the Italian media is decrying Ferrari’s “disaster” and “crisis”, Alonso is only 14 points off the lead of the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
Domenicali insisted: “We will continue working on the F10 until the end of the season.”<\/p>\n
He told lne.es: “The championship is still open and we have seen that anything can happen in the races.\u00a0 We will not give up.”<\/p>\n
Spaniard Alonso agrees that Ferrari is still in a position to fight for the title, arguing that no matter how good the Valencia upgrade, it will not be enough to close the gap to the front.<\/p>\n
“We know that McLaren and Red Bull are very far away and we don’t know if that’s enough.\u00a0 We have to work hard,” he said.<\/p>\n
He told La Razon: “We don’t know how long it is going to take, but the truth is that we are almost eight tenths from Red Bull and 6 or 7 tenths from McLaren, and these developments (for Valencia) are not going to give us that much.”<\/p>\n
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