Not even a month ago Stefano Domenicali, the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro’s Team Principal, was using football language when he was talking about the first three days of testing in Valencia. Now, after twelve more days of testing and a total of 7,353 kilometres done with the F10 he strikes a positive balance....

"We’re satisfied with the work done in these four test sessions, especially because we completed the programme we had set up,” Domenicali told the team’s official website. "First of all it was important to get to a good level regarding reliability and I think that we can say that we’ve reached our goal. Although we have to stay really concentrated and improve wherever we can.”

“We have to say that the team has done some really good work during the winter to get ready the best possible way for those 15 days of testing. With such a limited time for testing losing only a couple of hours due to a technical problem is a real pity."

Domenicali, who took part in the debriefing with the technicians who came back from Barcelona, was also positive as far as the single-seaters performance is concerned.

“What we could see and considering all the unknown factors in the testing I think that we’ve shown that we can be competitive and are part of the top group in terms of pure performance and also on the long run. This is an important result considering how we ended the last season just a little more than four months ago in Abu Dhabi; we’ve worked a lot over the last months. Now we have to continue with the F10’s development, because this will be the key to this season.”