Arrivabene wants investigation in to Ferrari performance

Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene says the team needs to investigate why it was so far off the pace at the British Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel took advantage of a late rain shower to move up to third place ahead of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, but had been well adrift of the two Williams drivers in dry conditions. With Williams the second fastest team at Silverstone, Arrivabene says he will not let the final result distract Ferrari from the reality of its competitiveness.

"I think [the glass] is half empty because we were doing a very good job in terms of strategy and the rain was helping us, but if the race was dry instead of being wet, the outcome was completely different," Arrivabene said. "So we need, if we want to be serious, to start from there and work on the programme that we have.

"We have to discuss it in-house, but we were slow on the straight without gaining anything from the high-speed curves and this is the problem."

And Arrivabene believes high-speed corners are proving to be a weakness for Ferrari this season.

"If you look at Barcelona, that was more or less the same story. We have tracks - and I’m not trying to find any excuses because this is the same thing as I said last time in Austria - but there are tracks that are in our favour and other tracks where we are struggling. I would like our people to be concentrated on the weaknesses instead of looking at the strengths."