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Arrivabene confident in Ferrari development approach

Maurizio Arrivabene says Ferrari must maintain its current development approach to ensure it clearly understands what works for its car.

Ferrari emerged as a threat to Mercedes early in the season, with Sebastian Vettel winning the Malaysian Grand Prix and Kimi Raikkonen finishing a close second in Bahrain. Since then, Mercedes appears to have pulled away at the front despite a power unit upgrade for Ferrari in Canada.

Despite struggling to match Mercedes, Arrivabene says updates to the SF15-T will continue to be delivered in smaller chunks on a race-by-race basis to ensure the developments are fully understood.

“We have had normal development on the car, the development is going through all the year, not something we put on the car all together,” Arrivabene said. “The upgrade we had [at Silverstone] is like the little one we had in Austria, and the one that is coming for Hungary.

“I think, for the methodology, it is important to do a good job, so [instead of putting] 10,000 things all together into the car, you put certain things and measure that they are doing well and go a step forward, otherwise you get lost.”

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