F1 Ferrari team need to improve

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has told the struggling team to cut out the comedy routine following its worst start to a season for 17 years.
Montezemolo attended a crunch two-and-a-half hour meeting at the Italian squad’s Maranello base on Tuesday as the post-mortem began into its failure to score points in Australia and Malaysia.
After reliability failures struck both its cars in the Melbourne season-opener, Ferrari’s problems in taking the fight to the early-season pacesetters were exacerbated at Sepang last weekend by two embarrassing tactical gaffes.
Firstly Felipe Massa missed the Q1 cut in qualifying after the team kept him in the garage on the wrong assumption he had set a time which would be fast enough to progress to the second stage.
Then Kimi Raikkonen’s race was wrecked after his car was fitted with full wet tyres while the track was bone-dry. And now Montezemolo, who brandished a monk’s hood at the Maranello meeting, has warned the team not to become a laughing stock – although he did express his confidence in the reigning world champion squad’s abilities to turn the situation around.
"I met some very angry people and that’s an understatement,” he said on Ferrari’s official website following the meeting.“They were angry with themselves, but very determined to react.
"I brought a monk’s hood with me to make everyone understand that we have to tackle this season with humility and I made the point that I don't want to see us on "Candid Camera" after every race.
“Joking apart, I know that this group has a very strong sense of pride and that will help us to get out of this situation.”
Ferrari, along with other protesting teams, feels its chances of fighting for wins are currently being diminished by the fact that three of the front-running teams are using rear diffusers it claims are illegal and which offer clear downforce advantages.And while an FIA appeal hearing is set to clarify the situation once and for all next Tuesday, Montezemolo says Ferrari will in any case bring forward planned developments for the F60 in order to catch up.
“It was an intense but constructive meeting,” he said.
“We know that we have to react to close the performance gap, even if part of it is down to an interpretation of the technical rules that many teams consider to be incorrect.
“That's why we'll work very hard over the next few days to bring forward as much as possible the aerodynamic development of the F60
“I have faith in the team, which – let's not forget – has won three of the last four world championship titles.”
He insisted that the team was pulling in the same direction to recover from its poor start.
“Our discussions are held in the locker room, just like we did it with Todt and Brawn during difficult moments,” added Montezemolo.“The team remains united and I have every confidence in it."