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Piola also said the move away from bosses like Stefano Domenicali and Marco Mattiacci has helped, as last year the team “seemed confused due to a lack of control”.

“Jean Todt had a lot of discipline,” he recalls, “and now I see Sergio Marchione and Maurizio Arrivabenen also as strong leaders.”

Piola also said the change of drivers is helpful to Ferrari, as the driving styles employed by Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso last year was so different.

"There is more power and more grip. We worked on all areas and we have made a good step from last year"

Kimi Raikkonen is set to sample new aerodynamic components during his final day of pre-season Formula 1 testing on Friday, as Ferrari gradually introduces its upgrades.

The 2007 world champion set the sixth-fastest time on the opening day at Barcelona, having spent the bulk of his 80 laps on the hard and medium Pirellis.

While new components on the car for Thursday were minimal, Raikkonen is keen to run updates on his last day before handing the car over to Sebastian Vettel for the weekend.

"More or less the car is the same," he said of developments compared to last week's test. "We can get some, but not for today, hopefully for tomorrow.

"I think it's not too bad, really, how the car behaves.

"There are certain things that we want to improve - and we want more grip obviously, always, to go faster - but sometimes it's a bit tricky here with the conditions that we are having.

"If the tyres don't work - one lap they work, next they don't - it changes a lot."

Raikkonen is content with the visible progress Ferrari has made after enduring a troubled 2014 season, especially as he knows there is more to come.

"We've made a good step from last year. It's hard to say from testing, but two weeks will tell us once we're going in Australia," he said.

"Overall it's a good a feeling and we still have one day to put all of the things we have learned together and hopefully we will be happy with everything.

"Obviously a laptime would be good, but we'll see in a few weeks in the first race where we are.

"It's not an issue, as long as you've got a good feeling on every fuel load you run it's usually OK."

James Allison: "Today was a much, much better day, with almost flawless reliability, and it’s much more encouraging to have that"

“I drove more than two Grands Prix today, but I don’t know if I won one!" jokes Sebastian Vettel after 143-lap

josip123 je napisao/la:Ma svi su meni lijepi od 2000. pa do 2008.
Od 2009 pa do 2013 su mi bili ruzni..... Jednostavno ne volim onakve bolide kada imaju podignut nos. Vise volim kad naginju prema dole. Ljepse izgleda. Bar meni

Ali definitivno meni najljepsi Ferrari je ovaj iz 1991.
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Ferrari and Williams both look very purposeful and the cars work well and the feeling is that there is not much to choose between them. The Ferrari, driven by Vettel today, is very responsive at the front end and turns in very precisely and consistently, which should suit Kimi Raikkonen well. It has clearly improved enormously in the power unit department, as shown by the improvement in the customer Sauber team’s performance as well.

The straight line speeds are much more competitive and the power delivery is clearly much better; it’s a car that Vettel and Raikkonen should be able to rack up plenty of points and some podiums with this year. Reliability looks good for Ferrari in particular, they’ve done a high mileage, as they did again today.