Domenicali: “Abu Dhabi is the past, now a great desire to react”

before the journalists' questions in the more than three-hour media marathon, between press conferences and interviews with radio and television, which characterized Stefano Domenicali's day in Madonna di Campiglio. References to the 2010 season and, above all, to the epilogue in Abu Dhabi could not be missing.

The opinion of the Team Principal of Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro is, as usual, very rational: “In everyone's eyes there is Abu Dhabi and the mistake made there but the truth is that we lost the championship at the beginning of the season. collecting those points that were within our possibilities.

In the last match we missed a decisive penalty kick but, as happens with footballers, in these cases the best thing is to immediately take another one to put that mistake to rest but it cannot erase the good things that had been done before.

I remember well that, at the beginning of the summer, no one would have bet a euro on our chances of getting to the end and yet you all know how it went. Now in the whole team there is a great desire to do well and to put behind us a bad epilogue to an otherwise positive season, especially in the second part, when we gave a great demonstration of concentration and determination in a situation that was certainly not easy. ”

“From a personal point of view, I confirm that I thought about whether it would have been right as team leader and, therefore, ultimately responsible for every decision, to resign but I also told myself that it would have been a wrong decision” – continued Domenicali – “Of course, in the following days we were dejected but then, also thanks to the support that President Montezemolo gave us first of all but also the thousands of messages of support that arrived from everywhere, from partners to fans, the desire took over to react. After all, it's useless to feel too sorry for yourself, also because all we do is give an advantage to our opponents."