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Ferrari's strong car, drivers and tire strategy bring a familiar result

The team needs to see victory as the rule, not as the exception

Ferrari’s downfall was caused by sending drivers out at the wrong time and on the wrong tyres in qualifying or choosing poor pit-stop strategies
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Ferrari’s downfall was caused by sending drivers out at the wrong time and on the wrong tyres in qualifying or choosing poor pit-stop strategies

Kate Walker | NYT
After clinching its fifth consecutive Formula One World Championship constructors’ title this year, the Mercedes team is wary of becoming complacent about winning.
 
For Ferrari, the runner-up, complacency is not the problem. The issue, said Maurizio Arrivabene, the team principal, is its mind-set. The team needs to see victory as the rule, not as the exception.
 
“The habit to win, it’s very simple,” he said in an interview. “If you are doing one-two it doesn’t have to be an exceptional event,” he said, referring to finishing first and second in a race. “It must be a habit, as