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Ferrari braced for tricky 2015 season
New Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene says he cannot work miracles with the team next season as Maranello prepares for a difficult season in 2015.
Arrivabene became Ferrari's third team principal this year after he was drafted in from an executive role at sponsor Philip Morris to take over the reins from Marco Mattiacci. Ferrari struggled to fourth in the constructors' championship this season and Arrivabene said he has some rebuilding to do to get the team back to the top.
"No man is an island," Reuters reported him as saying at a media event. "I am not a magician, there are no miracles to be made. We have to work as a team, this is the most important thing.
"I don't believe in individual success. I believe in team success. Drivers become the stars of the show but they must be treated like employees. They must work as a team and help rebuild the team."
However, it looks as though Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne is willing to give Arrivabene the necessary time to make changes, admitting that decisions made by the previous management had set the team back.
"We started late with the 2015 car, certain choices and strategies that were made by others and that, in retrospect, I don't necessarily share ," Marchionne said. "So 2015 will be a difficult year that will put the team to a real test.
"I think 2015 is going to be a reconstitution year. It will be Maurizio's first full year with the team. I think hopefully within the next 12 months we will remove all the baggage of uncertainty that is going to plague at least the initial phase of 2015.
"Not to underestimate the significance or the magnitude of the task, I think Ferrari can probably get to the same place [as Mercedes] by the end of 2015. Some of the work has already started. We need to be able to emulate their success."
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