Ferrari were left disappointed on Saturday following qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix after they failed to carry through their pre-season test pace to the sessions.
Many had touted the Italian outfit to be setting the pace come the season opener, but qualifying told a different story with both Fernando Alonso (5th) and Felipe Massa (8th) struggling for speed.
The Spaniard acknowledged the gap, but he is confident their is more to come from the car, insisting fans they shouldn’t make a ‘drama’ out of it.
“Clearly, we cannot be happy with this result,” he said, “but we must not immediately make a drama out of it.
“We definitely did not get the most out of the car and we have to understand the reasons for that. Compared to what we saw at the tests, here we ended up much closer to cars that had been a long way off in Spain.”
Massa was equally susprised with his result, saying he had expected to be much higher.
“We were less competitive than we could rightly have expected and there’s no doubt about that. Sure, I did not think I would be fighting for pole, especially when you look at the very quick time that Vettel did, but I had hoped to be higher up the order.”
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