Ex-Ferrari boss sees team's mistake they 'carry for entire season'

Ferrari's team boss Arrivabene explains the process behind the Italian's different cars and what could go wrong there.

He told Tuttosport: "When you've worked inside the team, you understand certain mechanisms, certain technical difficulties. A supercar is made of 5,000 components and you have four years to fine-tune it. A Formula 1 has 50,000 and you have six months.

Arrivabene was complimentary of the current team boss, Frederic Vasseur's qualities. "He is a serious person and understands. I had an easy life because I spoke Italian and could grasp all the nuances, all the words and ideas of anyone."

Ferrari's season has not gone as some have imagined. The Italian team remains the only one out of the four frontrunners to win a Grand Prix, after they just missed out on the constructors' title to McLaren the year before.

Despite Lewis Hamilton winning Ferrari’s first-ever Sprint in China, he is yet to secure a Grand Prix podium. Charles Leclerc's best result is second place in Monaco.

Hamilton also highlighted the issues that prevented Ferrari from competing at the front in Singapore.

The Italian also explained where he thinks his former team is lagging behind.

However, he believes the Scuderia is progressing. "But we're getting there. It takes patience, but Ferrari is on the right path.

"That kind of progress could also be useful to the country, in England thirty thousand people work, it's not just about winning races, it's about progressing on an industrial level," he concluded.

While McLaren secured the constructors' championship for the second season in a row in Singapore, the battle for second place remains open.

Ferrari is currently 27 points behind Mercedes in third place in the standings.

The next round in the F1 calendar takes place the Circuit of the Americas, where the team achieved an outstanding result the previous campaign.