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Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has said it is "crucial" for his team to win one of the next three races if it wants to stay in the title hunt.

Ferrari has won just one race this year, at the season-opener in Bahrain, and since then the victories have been shared between its rivals McLaren and Red Bull. The team is now 83 points behind McLaren in the constructors' championship and its leading driver Fernando Alonso is 29 points adrift of Lewis Hamilton in the drivers' title.

The British, German and Hungarian Grands Prix are tightly scheduled over next four weeks, before F1 takes a month's summer break ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix in late August. When asked how important it would be for Ferrari to win one of the next three races, Domenicali said: "For sure it will be very important. It will be crucial for the championships, for the motivation and I think it will be the key to have this kind of result before the summer break. That is what our team deserves."

At the European Grand Prix Ferrari brought an update to the F10 and qualified both cars in the top five. Domenicali said that the addition of new parts at each race would be vital for the team to reach its target.

"We believe that the development and the rate of development will be the key to success this year," he said. "We made quite a reasonable step in Valencia, and we'll do another one, maybe smaller for sure, at Silverstone. We're speaking about the front and rear wings. Then in Germany, a new package, in Hungary, a new package, and then we will see."

However, Ferrari was left fuming after Valencia, where a safety car ruined both Alonso's and Felipe Massa's races while its competitors scored good results. Domenicali insists the post-race bickering has not had a negative effect on the team and that it would go to Silverstone aiming to get the best possible result.

"As always after a difficult grand prix like we had in Valencia, the atmosphere here in Maranello is good," he said. "There is the will for all the team to go to this fantastic track and start a new racing weekend. We know that unfortunately the last two races we didn't get the results that we wanted. The performance was there, but the result was not there. Even if we know that traditionally Silverstone is not a track where we perform very well, we're really looking forward to going there and seeing what the outcome will be."

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