Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene has the full backing of Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne, amid rumours in the Italian media that James Allison could take over as team chief.
The rumours, which came about before the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, were compounded further after Ferrari disappointed in qualifying, securing the third-row of the grid behind both Mercedes and Red Bull cars.
Speaking on Sunday morning ahead of the race, Marchionne gave his support to Arrivabene.
"Absolutely. Totally, beyond any question," he replied when asked if he had confidence in Arrivabene's ability.
Despite predicting race wins starting in Spain – something which now looks highly unlikely – Marchionne dismissed the team's poor performance as anything serious, attributing it to track temperatures.
"I still think we have two of the world's best drivers. We probably have the best drivers, and I shouldn't be saying this with four drivers who are not ours in front of us, but we have great drivers," he added. "The team is in the best shape I've seen it for a long, long time.
"They need to continue to work diligently on fixing these issues, and I would not make a huge issue out of the fact that yesterday we had this out-of-body experience with operating the car in a temperature window that was not operable.
"Had we known it we would have done different things with the tyres, we would have done a variety of things differently."
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