Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali was pretty relaxed about the outcome of the Brazilian GP on Sunday afternoon, even though Fernando Alonso missed the chance to put the World Championship beyond doubt.
Nevertheless he still has a useful lead, one that means finishing first or second means it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.
“I have to be very honest with you, I was totally focussed on the fact that the championship would have been finished in Abu Dhabi, speaking for the drivers’ [version] of course,” said Domenicali.
“I was not convinced that the championship would be finished here, unless there was a problem of reliability. But we know Red Bull is very, very strong, and I take the opportunity to congratulate them, because they deserved this title on the constructors’. They did the best job of everyone, and they deserved this title.
“On the other hand it’s great that we are going to Abu Dhabi to fight with them for the other title. This is for me great news for the team. It’s very important.
“We don’t have to make a very difficult calculation. We know that if we are in the middle of the two Red Bulls, it’s fine. But apart from that we need to make sure that we are fast. We need to do a perfect qualifying, as you know that it’s very important, fundamental. And we need to do the best that we can.
“We need to wait up to the last metre, because reliability is a big point. Everyone will be worried about not only engines, but everything. So that will be a very long race in Abu Dhabi.”
He admitted that the situation was complicated by having two main rivals, in that if one Red Bull retires, the other could still be there.
“It’s a problem, because there are two instead of one. For sure they’re in a better position, but we know that we need to look inside, we don’t need to look at what the others will do. We need to do the best race, the fastest race, the fastest qualifying. Who will win will deserve the title, for sure.”
Domenicali says that the easiest thing is just to win the final race: “We’ll try. It’s something that we need to do, because if you win it’s easy. No calculation! But we know the Red Bull is very strong, it was strong last year. But last year on our side we were in a very different scenario, we stopped development. I think it will be a very challenging race.”
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