Upgrade last chance for F2012 project - Massa
May 12 (GMM) Felipe Massa has hinted that Ferrari should consider moving on if major improvements to the F2012 do not push the team forwards this weekend.
The Maranello based team played down the extent of the upgrade seen in Barcelona on Friday, but one media pundit surmised that "almost everything is different" compared with the car in Bahrain three weeks ago.
It might, therefore, be seen as a last roll of the dice for Ferrari, who could therefore be advised to turn attention to the 2013 project should the upgrades not work as expected.
But when that was put to Fernando Alonso in Barcelona, the Spaniard answered: "I don't think so. I don't think so."
Brazilian Massa doesn't agree.
"If you have a car, you introduce a number of significant changes and you don't get the response you expected, it means that the project is not good," he is quoted by Brazil's O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper.
"You would have to leave it in order to create a new base," added Massa.
But Alonso doesn't agree with his teammate's final point, either.
When asked if the disappointing F2012 could nonetheless be used as the basis of Ferrari's 2013 project, he insisted: "I think so. Yes."
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