Ferarri’s new Formula One boss, Stefano Domenicali, is keen to put last season’s spy scandal behind him and look to the future.
”For the good of the sport we need to look forward; the past is the past,” he said in Italy at his first press conference as Ferrari Formula One chief, although admitting the spy scandal would be difficult to completely forget.
”They are difficult wounds to heal. I won’t forget what happened. We have always maintained good faith. It is the value we hold most dear,” he said.
Domenicali replaced Frenchman Jean Todt, who turned Ferrari into one of Formula One’s most successful teams since joining in 1993, as boss of the Italian stable this month.
”What counts are the rules of engagement; those are equal to last year. The priority is the well-being of the team,” said Domenicali, who added his champion driver Kimi Raikkonen would not be given preferential treatment in 2008. ”Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa start off equally,” he said.
In September, McLaren were found guilty of fraudulent conduct — being in unauthorised possession of technical information belonging to Ferrari.
That resulted in the WMSC fining the team $50-million and stripping them of all their constructors’ points for the 2007 season, which handed Ferrari their first constructors’ title since 2004. — AFP
