TALKING POINT THE BOSS WAS NOT HAPPY
M
aurizio Arrivabene admitted to
media after the Chinese Grand
Prix that Ferrari president Sergio
Marchionne was not happy witnessing
his two drivers nearly eliminating one
another from the race in a first corner
incident.
The Maranello outfit were upbeat
all weekend, in Shanghai, confident that
they could upset Mercedes dominance,
with Nico Rosberg on pole but Lewis
Hamilton last on the grid the opportunity
was there for them to seize.
But it all went wrong as the field
hurtled through Turn 1, Sebastian
Vettel swerving into Kimi Raikkonen
alongside him which damaged his own
wing end-plates while totally snapping
off the Finn’s front wing – all this while
Marchionne watched from the Ferrari pit
garage.
But it was not all gloom for the
Italian team and their tifosi, as Vettel
and Raikkonen recovered well to finish
the race in second and fifth respectively.
Afterwards Arrivabene told the
assembled media, “[Sergio Marchionne]
knows motor racing, so of course he was
not happy. As I was not happy. He saw
the race but in certain circumstances,
what can you do? You can say, many,
many things.”
“There is nothing you can do, not
the team nor with the car. When things
happen like this you have to accept it,
but of course he was not happy. By the
way if he was happy, I would be asking to
myself: is this a real president or what?”