Double world champion Ferrari has said that is torn between trying to banish memories of last Sunday's British Grand Prix at
Silverstone, or hang on to them in an effort to keep itself on top of its game for the second half of the
Formula One season.
The Scuderia appeared to be in for a tough time after playing second fiddle to
McLaren for much of the build-up to the 60-lap encounter, but still provided
Kimi Raikkonen with a car that could challenge home favourite
Lewis Hamilton for victory. Although the Briton jumped into a sizeable lead early in the race, Raikkonen was closing him down as the first round of pit-stops approached - only for
Ferrari's tactics, as they had with
Felipe Massa in Monaco, to awry in the face of tricky and changeable weather conditions.
"Unfortunately, weather is very unpredictable, it's changing very quickly," Domenicali admitted, "For sure, we need to think how to be more proactive on that specific point."
Raikkonen's first pit-stop underlined the dilemma, as the Finn arrived in the pits on Hamilton's tail, but fell away sharply in the second stint after the Scuderia's gamble on tyres proved to be costly.
"We didn't put too much fuel in Kimi's car because, at that moment, you could have expected the track conditions to be getting better and better," Domenicali explained, "Then you arrive at a moment when you need to swap the tyres, maybe to dry conditions, you never know. That's the consideration that you have to have in mind when you decide the length of the second stint.
"Of course, at that moment, we didn't change the tyres because that was our thinking on the evolution of the track - and we also saw the other two drivers who didn't change in those two laps were quite good, so that was the reason why we didn't change. And, of course, retrospectively, it was the wrong decision."
