Felipe Massa insists he is happy with the Ferrari team’s “100 per cent” support during his current trough.

The Brazilian has been in the headlines of late; struggling with the F10 car, relegated to a subordinate role for Fernando Alonso’s title charge, and urged to get up to speed by his bosses.

Some Italian media interpreted recent comments by Luca di Montezemolo and Stefano Domenicali – including the Ferrari’s president’s claim that he has “waited with great perseverance” for an improvement – as an ‘Italian ultimatum’ for Massa.

But reporting on the team’s official website from Brazil, the 29-year-old insists Montezemolo and Ferrari are actually fully supportive.

“Even though I am going through a particularly difficult time right now with a lack of results in the last couple of races, I know I can count on the support of the team, who have always been behind me one hundred per cent, especially in the difficult times,” said Massa.

“Knowing he (Montezemolo) has faith in me is something I truly appreciate: he has an excellent understanding of the sport and he knows that you can sometimes go through tough times.

“The fact his support is always there is very important,” he added.

Massa’s latest comments also tackle speculation that he is no longer pushing as hard as possible, given that the biggest prize on offer is a third drivers’ title for his teammate Alonso.

“My desire to do as well as possible for me and for the team is the same as ever and that has been my approach to the sport ever since I started in formula one,” he insisted.

Team founder Frank Williams and Patrick Head associate themselves with the Austrians took Toto Wolff another partner on board, the former CEO Adam Parr was charged in July with the Presidency of the Formula 1 teams. The generational change at the former World Champion team is thus on track. After difficult times economically, and sporty, it is now to go back uphill.

A key role is played by Parr. The 45-year-old is in the team since 2006 and is now the successor of the now already 68-year-old Frank Williams. Here, Parr has had to painstakingly hineinarbeiten in the Formula 1 world. The Briton had to do until not too long ago with the PS-circus nothing.

“In every single second I think of Williams,” Parr said in an interview with ‘Motorsport-Total.com’. The new Williams-chairman has captured not only within a very short time the Rennbazillus, but in the big business formula one found new challenges elsewhere, it does not exist in this form. “Williams is my life, I love it. I have in my life have made a lot of different things, but now I could not think of anything else.”

The path of the man from Great Britain in the great Formula 1 world is mapped out over many years is anything but. Adam Parr on 26 Born May 1965 in London. “A very special date,” he laughs. “Back then there was the important fight of Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, who was terminated after just two minutes. My father has watched the fight live at night for two on television.”

The family holds no ready Motorsport genes for the pupil. On the contrary: In the youth Parr is in the course of the separation of their parents rather little disoriented. Young Adam is growing up with his mother and stepfather, is adopted by him and gets the surname Parr. With his “new family”, he moves to Northamtonshire goes in Brackley – where the present-Mercedes Formula 1 factory – is in school.

Parr changes later on the legendary Eton College. “This was a great time, and I also have an interesting year at that time caught,” he says. “Boris Johnson was there with me, who is mayor of London today. Abhisit Vejjajiva was in my class who has managed to become Prime Minister in Thailand. And the current British Prime Minister David Cameron was also there. What a year …”

In June 2009, the next change followed in the Unternehmsstruktur. An Austrian went to the big stage. “Was added as Toto Wolff, we had to restructure something.” The passionate “Petrol Head” from Austria is third partner with Frank Williams and Patrick Head. “Frank has the majority and he has everything under control. Patrick and Toto have compared rather smaller holdings, but even as a minority owner of course they have certain rights.”

The Board will be filled in July 2010 new. From now Parr leads the race team – at least nominally. He bears the responsibility as Chairman mixes, but by no one in all areas of daily operations. “My job was from the beginning rather the financial, legal and the political side of the business. We have the new division of responsibilities clearly communicated because it is in my view, very important that people know who they are dealing with us have. ”

“There must be outward always clear who has what skills. When quick decisions are required, then you know to whom you have contact,” said the businessman. “When I spoke with Frank very beginning, I asked him, ‘Frank, you’ve worked with huge companies such as Canon or Renault. Where these companies the biggest difference to your team?” He then said: ‘Obviously: the decision-making. The are outlined more clearly in such companies. ”

At that time the Williams decision paths were difficult to follow. This should change quickly under the leadership of Parr. “If you have even a comparatively small Formula 1 team such a confused decision-making authority, then that is bad. It is bad if people know how Jean Todt or the media does not know who has what to say.” Therefore quickly clear boundaries were installed.
On the level of world champions

“Frank is certain things I’ll never learn. This is true for Patrick or Michael for Sam as well. Everyone has his Department, who is with us now defined very clearly,” says Parr, the new division at Williams. “I had to provide as chairman that the company is pursuing the right strategy. I have to implement this strategy alone, but because all are involved. But I must ensure that all necessary means for implementation are available. We need the right people the right tools. “

From the switch to Williams, veteran Rubens Barrichello had promised to secure more. Equipped with Cosworth engines, Williams effort to pass in midfield. Every now and then scratching at the points, it was enough to striking results so far not. In Montreal, but will now come a big step, to help, a new front wing on the FW32.

“I hope it is a step forward,” said Barrichello. “We have a few new things here, we have to see how this pays off on the track.” Williams had a lot to catch up with the latest major update for the port of Valencia is to be restored.
“The reason why we in Istanbul were not so good is that others have been better – but not us,” said the Brazilian. “We had new parts of it, but made no progress. We have to see how it works this weekend.”

Team-mate Nico Hulkenberg is however more on the Valencia-update that Williams should bring in the top 10. “Each of the next race will be difficult,” he said. “This year is a general problem when the car is too slow at this time. The other develop even further. I’m at the beginning of my Formula 1 career and I know that in difficult times can learn a lot.”

Luca di Montezemolo has once again repeated his disapproval of F1′s new teams.

In the wake of the carmaker exodus, the Ferrari president expressed his desire to see the big teams be allowed to field third cars.

Instead, new teams including Virgin, HRT and a relaunched Lotus debuted with the support of the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone.

But earlier this year Maranello based Ferrari ridiculed the new entry list as being more deserving of the name ‘Formula GP3′.

And Montezemolo is now quoted by Tuttosport: “In the 60th year of formula one, Ferrari is celebrating its 800th grand prix.

“Let me say with pride that no one will be able to match this record.

“For us it is a source of great satisfaction and pride because is represents that Ferrari has been here even in difficult times, while other teams have come and have gone.

“I repeat that formula one without Ferrari is not formula one, and this year there are many teams that should be racing in GP2,” added Montezemolo.

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Sebastian Vettel, Winner! great start from attack championship.
“What a day! At the start, I realised that I had a good start past Nico (Rosberg). I was then able to gain on Mark; it’s a long sprint down to Turn one and I had an advantage, so I took the chance into Turn 1 and just made it through! Mark had a better exit out of Turn 2 though Turn 3, but it was very slippery and we both tried to push. We are here to fight, but you should always keep respect and I think we both had respect for each other”, said Vettel.

“If Mark had been in my position I’m sure he would have done the same. After that it was a question of getting away from our competitors. I could see that Mark and I had the same pace – he was a little quicker in the beginning, but I was trying to save my tyres so I could pull away before the stop. The second stint was extremely long and it’s very hot here – I didn’t stop sweating”, addded driver.

It’s very physical and at some stages I was hoping for rain just to get a bit of a cool down! Yesterday was extremely difficult with the conditions, but today it stayed dry. We have a magnificent car and the key once again was to pace yourself and watch your tyres. Bridgestone did a good job bringing two compounds here that worked well. It’s a very good result for us after two races where we didn’t finish where we wanted.

Driver have words to Team: “Thanks to the team – it’s crucial not to panic in that moment and stay relaxed as it’s a long season. Sitting here on Sunday afternoon after finishing in first position is the best result we can get. On top of that, Mark is in second place. It’s a big plus for the team and a lot of points for us, I’m very, very happy.”

Car 6 Mark Webber, 2nd, Start Position: 1st
“We know these days with the strategy and the way the races unfold that the first part of the race is crucial. I got a bit of wheel spin at the start and Seb got a tow into the first corner. I didn’t know where Nico was, so I braked late. Both Seb and I were on the limit to make the first corner. I had a little bit better exit coming out of Turn 2 and the fight continued into Turn 4. We had a chat to Christian at the start of the race and he said “Boys, behave yourselves!” and we did. The spirit and the chemistry in our team is awesome and we fight very hard. You saw that today – it was a good fight between Sebastian and I. It could have gone either way, but in the end he did the job at the crucial stage and deserved the victory. A one two finish for us as a team is sensational. The cars ran very well and it was a nice come back for us after a tough few races where we didn’t finish as we wanted to. I’d like to be one spot further up, but it’s a great result for the team. We executed a beautiful weekend, so well done to Red Bull and also to Renault, the engines were great today.”

Christian Horner, Team Principal: “A fantastic team performance. The race ultimately came down to the first 500 metres; both drivers had excellent starts. Sebastian got the inside line into Turn 1, Mark gave him enough space and they fought each other through Turn 2 and into Turn 3. That was the difference between them today, they matched each other tenth for tenth in pace and it was great to see the team achieve a faultless one two finish. It’s been a huge amount of hard work. Obviously we’ve had
frustrations in the first two races, but the team has stayed focused. We’ve had tremendous support from the factory this weekend and people gave up their Easter to ensure that our cars had the best opportunity for finishing at arguably one of the toughest races. Both cars behaved impeccably, so it puts us right back in the Championship and gives everyone a lot of confidence.”

Fabrice Lom, Renault, Principal Engineer Track Support: “Woo hoo! What a good result – it’s the one we deserved since the beginning of the season, but due to reliability problems we were not able to make it. Now it’s done, the reliability is there and it’s a one two finish – it’s great. After all the difficult times we are a team and are back in the fight. Our big competitors didn’t score a lot of points so it’s a really good result for us and the engines behaved very well in this heat. We are fully happy today. “

As we already know, the changes of the regulation will cause the F1 cars to have approximately 100 kilos more at the beginning of the race in comparison to the past.  In addition to this, there are a series of challenges the F1 designers are facing; brakes’ wear, steering wheel’s, weight distribution and tire wear.  Any team that tries to solve these problems will go through difficult times, specially at the beginning of the season, until it’s updated and solutions are found.

 ¿What are the possible solutions?

 The starting point for most of this year’s F1 designers is the prohibition to fill up the fuel tanks.  Instead of cars with a maximum weight of 660-700 kg in the beginning of the race and 605 kg at the end, variation will be greater this year.

 This will not only affect the time per lap, but several other aspects:

 Brakes

 The cars’ brakes will have more presence this year because, carrying more weight, they will have to work harder and the pilots will need to decelerate harder with their cars full of fuel.  The designers will have to do things well so that the single-seaters brake correctly during the whole race and suffer the least wear possible.

 Likewise, they have to face all those who will use the same brakes as last year’s (size).

Last year there were serious problems with the brakes. For instance, in Singapore when Mark Webber crashed due to lack of them, a few minutes after the team had warned him through the radio that there was a problem with the brakes and should go back to the boxes.  The problem to be worked out by the engineers is indeed important.

 Height

 Another problem for the designers is the great weight resulting from the amount of fuel which will cause the single-seaters to be higher at the beginning of the race.  For an optimum performance, cars have to be as low as possible, but as the weight of the fuel decreases their height will increase since there will be less mass pushing the cushion springs down.

 During the last two seasons when filling up was not allowed in the F1 -1992 y 1993-, many teams solved this problem using the active suspension technology, which can be programmed to compensate the lowering amount of fuel through a progressive reduction of the single-seated height.  However, two clauses on the current norms prevent the use of these systems, leaving the option that the mechanics manually adjust the speed’s height during the stops at the boxes.  Then again, this may be too complicated and takes a lot of time to do.  Is it possible that they’re studying the way to simplify this?

 As has been the case since 1994, the teams that race with very low cars risk wearing out their drag blocks (also known as "tables").

 With the fill up ban, the teams now have to adapt to the best performance possible.

 Hence we have to take into account the different engines’ types of fuel consumption; a real challenge.  This year, many cars will have Cosworth engines which performance is a mystery.

 Weight distribution

  Reduction of the front tire’s width combined with bigger fuel tanks imply many changes on weight distribution.  The front tires will be 25 mm thinner in 2010 than last year.  So, while in 2009 designers used to move the weight distribution towards the front, it’s possible that this year they try to move it backwards.

 This might also produce a reversion of the trend to have less distance between axles that we witnessed last year.  In addition to this, this season, Bridgestone will have to supply more lasting tires capable of enduring more weight-wear.

 Rear diffusers

One of the greatest technical achievements of 2009 has been the double diffusers.  The teams might use them again in 2010, even though the FIA is looking for its ban in 2011.

 They offer an increase of the so very valuable aerodynamics downforces and it’s quite unlikely that any team runs without them, this year.  Even though, according to the USF1 technicians’ statements, who declare to be swimming against the tide, we might be surprised.

In 2010, the design engineers will have to work hard again, because the air flow around the rear part of the car will be compromised due to the larger fuel tanks which will demand that the place of the radiators is changed.

Ferrari has confirmed to have integrated the oil reservoir beside the gearbox to give more space to the fuel tank.