From GMM

Following the "difficult" track debut of the F60 on Monday, the Scuderia Ferrari decamped to the engineering transporters on Tuesday to analyse the birth of its new 2009 single seater.

"After such serious rule changes, the shakedown is always a very difficult affair," Brazilian Felipe Massa, at the wheel of the Mugello debut, said.

"In the next tests there will be changes (to the car)," he revealed.

On Monday, the car - also hosting the circuit debut of a Ferrari KERS system - completed only about 100 kilometres.

Even the Italian marque's president Luca di Montezemolo was present for the rollout debrief. According to reports, the most troublesome areas of the F60 were the KERS, and also the new front wing.

It is also suggested that the F60 features a radical solution to the new aerodynamic restrictions for 2009 in the area of the under tray.

The Maranello based team has been perhaps the most vocal opponent of the controversial energy-reuse technology, but most teams actually wanted to delay the voluntary deployment for another year.

In the F1 teams' alliance FOTA, however, total unanimity is necessary for measures to be adopted immediately.

"We specified that resolutions must be reached unanimously," Stefano Domenicali confirmed. "But sometimes you have to compromise as well," he is quoted as saying by the German news agency SID. "Everyone could accept that, except BMW.

"Only if we all work together will the future of F1 be rosy, rather than dark, as we are experiencing now," Domenicali charged.

He insists that the track-debut of Ferrari's KERS system went well, "however it is the wrong moment to introduce such a complex system".

"It has nothing to do with systems used in road cars. A lot of money has been thrown out of the window," Domenicali added.


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