Ferrari boss attacks new teams as "too slow"

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has attacked the new teams in the aftermath of Fernando Alonso losing the Canadian Grand Prix.

"In modern F1 races cars with GP2 levels of performance shouldn't participate," he said in Gazzetta dello Sport. Montezemolo may have been referring to Jarno Trulli's Lotus and perhaps the Hispania of Karun Chandhok, which was being lapped when Alonso lost a place to Button.

"Our car had the pace to win, I hope in the future there are no more errors in lapping cars which are to our disadvantage, " he added. "We already gave."

Ferrari have always had a big downer on the new teams, of you recall a post on their website last year around Monaco time and several references since.

In fact, when you study the lap times, although they are somewhat erratic, Trulli's pace around lap 39 for example was a mid 1m20, while Webber was leading doing 1m 19.6, Hamilton catching him on 1m 18.8 and Rosberg in midfield was doing 1m 21.6s.

The incident with Trulli which enraged Alonso was on lap 28 when Alonso was pitting. He had just done his fastest lap of the race to that point, a 1m 19.05, and was headed for the pits. Hamilton had pitted two laps earlier and Alonso was flat out to try to jump him at his second stop. "If Trulli hadn't slowed me down I would have done it," fumed Alonso on Sunday night.

"I lost two and a half seconds and when I came out of the pits I saw Hamilton ahead. Without traffic I would have had the lead."

That lap Trulli did a 1m 24.7 and says that no blue flags were waved at him that lap.

Ferrari is calling for the drivers to agree a code for lapped cars to get out of the way. This is something F1 drivers have had to deal with as long as there has been racing.

Lotus boss Tony Fernandes is of the opinion that blue flags should be abandoned in F1. This is sure to be a key talking point in the coming weeks.

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