Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has set the bar high for his drivers in the final races in the 2008 World Championship after the team failed to score points in the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday.

"The objective that we have is clear," said Domenicali. "We have three races to go, we will approach the last three races aware that we need to finish first and second every time. We have the potential to do so, so the target is very clear. It is not easy, but don't forget that we have raced in very difficult situations over the last couple of years, and we were sometimes able to win, sometimes unfortunately to lose but the motivation is still the same. The team is very strong; unfortunately you have the moments such as this Sunday but after two hours we were already motivated and looking forward to going to Japan to attack again."

The team's fortunes were compromised on lap 17 of the 61 lap race when a safety car resulted in half the field making a pit stop. Massa came in first and was released early into the path of a Toyota, with the fuel rig still attached. He stopped at the pit lane exit to have it disconnected and eventually had to serve a stop-go penalty.

Kimi Raikkonen had to queue up behind his teammate, rejoined 15th and fought through to fifth place before crashing five laps from home. His performance after the safety car went in suddenly improved after half a dozen laps.

"Maybe at the beginning the tyre pressures were a bit too low," explained Domenicali. "When the pressures came up to the right level, he was able to push. He got fastest lap and he was catching up with Lewis (Hamilton), because the strategy was going in the right direction.”

"It was really a shame that we got this result because today is really a black day. The best car (the Ferrari) is the last on the result sheet. Sometimes you have to consider that the safety car is mixing up the situation of the race, but this time it was too much. I don't want to discuss situations that may arise under safety car conditions, because it's unpredictable. Sometimes they are going in the right direction and sometimes in the wrong direction.”

"In that respect, Renault did very well with the safety car, and congratulations, they won the race. Unfortunately we didn't get the result that we wanted - not only that we wanted, but that we had in our hands, because we saw the performance of the car yesterday (in qualifying), we saw the performance of the car in the first stint of the race."