Luca di Montezemolo has expanded on his reasons for delivering a public rebuke to driver Fernando Alonso, reiterating that the success of the Ferrari ‘family’ depends on everyone pulling in the same direction, and that no one person is bigger than the team. In the wake of a disappointing performance at the Hungarian Grand Prix, Alonso had claimed, apparently in jest, that his ideal birthday present would be ‘someone else’s car’. Although the comments went unnoticed by the majority of the Formula 1 paddock, Ferrari released a statement the following Tuesday stating that the Spaniard had been admonished by Montezemolo. In an interview with Italian paper Corriere della Sera, the...
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