New Ferrari
A Major
Challenge?

Felipe Massa has admitted Ferrari's new Formula 1 race car, the F60, is very different from the previous F2008 and subsequently may provide for many challenges. The differences are due to major changes in the FIA's regulations for 2009 car design. This is what the Brazilian had to say:

"This car is completely different from the one we had last year. Many rules have changed and they are all visible, the impact of the rules, such as the introduction of the KERS, the changed aerodynamics; all these things make it very different for us all to drive.

For the first day there weren't planned 100 laps or particular lap times, because when the rules change in such an important way the shakedown becomes more difficult and delicate. We resolved some minor problems today and I'm glad that I went 100 kilometres using the KERS, which was the part that worried us most. We started to use it just a bit in the beginning and then we raised its performance level.

In the upcoming tests we'll have the possibility to try out all its different aspects. We used this first day to check the general functioning of the engine, the gearbox, the suspension and the KERS; it was positive, because everything worked just fine. We wanted to do 100 laps, but in reality we tested more than we had actually expected to."