Ferrari’s British GP Qualifying Gaffe Shows Big-Time Mentality with Midfield Car

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Published: July 5, 2014

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Earlier this week, Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's former race engineer at Ferrari, explained the route that Williams—his new employers—must take to return to winning ways.

Massa and his teammate Valtteri Bottas had secured the team's first front-row lockout since 2003 at last month's Austrian Grand Prix—but a conservative strategy, on a day when Williams had the car to challenge the all-conquering Mercedes for victory, led to Massa and Bottas slipping to fourth and third, respectively, by the chequered flag.

Having won only one race in the last decade, Smedley implied that Williams' mindset played a large role in the team's fall down the order at the Red Bull Ring, telling Ben Anderson of Autosport:

I think we have to look inwardly at ourselves and understand how we improve in every single tiny detail, because it's in the details, there's no big magic bullet.

We were racing against a very professional outfit [Mercedes] with a quicker car, but very well organised. And why are they so well organised? Because they've got such a depth of experience racing at that end of the field.

From racing last year, as Williams were, in 13th, 14th, 15th position, to racing in first, second, third, fourth position is a completely different thing. Believe me, because I've done both ends.

It's just about learning how to race at this end—from an operations point of view, from a performance point of view—it's just about adding little bits of performance in all areas of the car, [looking at] how we operate, making mistakes and going back and fixing them and not doing them again.

While Williams, with the help of Smedley, are in the process of transforming from a midfield team to a front-running outfit, Ferrari are rapidly heading in the opposite direction.

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