Binotto says that Ferrari will investigate Vettel's crash

Ferrari have revealed that they will investigate the rim failure which caused Sebastian Vettel's crash during winter testing. Vettel lost control of his car at turn three during Wednesday's winter testing session. Ferrari believes that it was an issue with the front left wheel rim which caused the accident but will continue to investigate. 

"We took a look through all the data to try to understand the origin and the cause of the problem," said Binotto to Motorsport.com.

"We believe the issue was a rim failure but because the rim has been damaged by an external hit when running on the track, so the type of thing we can not avoid. I think it's been a very unlucky situation.

"On our side, that's the best explanation we've got so far but we will still make sure and look deeper in all the details and data, eventually, to address any issue that may be still potential[ly there]."

The new Ferrari boss is happy with how winter testing has gone and remembers the struggles of testing last year. 

"Last season was a difficult winter testing but first because of the weather conditions," he added.

"It's quite a different situation [this year], sunny and great ambient temperature. We had some reliability issues during these days, we crashed with Seb at Turn 3."

Ferrari will hope to take their relative success from winter testing and take it into the racing season when it starts in two weeks time.