Felipe Massa

Bernie Ecclestone says Ferrari and Formula 1 are perfect for each other despite the Italian squad’s disagreements with FIA president Max Mosley.

Mosley and Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo have been at loggerheads since the governing body decided to introduce a budget cap for the 2010 season, meaning Formula 1 would become a two-tier championship.

The FIA president said Formula 1 could survive without Ferrari, the only team who has competed in every championship since 1950.

Ecclestone feels Mosley was just trying to hit back at di Montezemolo, and said Formula 1 is the perfect place for Ferrari.

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Felipe Massa is hopeful his Ferrari team will be able to take a significant step forward at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix following its poor start to the year.

The Maranello-based squad, who has scored just three points in four races, is introducing several updates for the Barcelona race, including a double-decker diffuser and other aerodynamic changes.

“We have a good improvement in our car,” Massa told reporters in Spain on Thursday.

“For sure the others are not sleeping, they are working hard as well. But I hope we can improve more than the others to make a step forward.”

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Q. What can you tell us about the updates Ferrari has brought for this race?

Felipe Massa: We have a good improvement in our car. For sure the others are not sleeping, they are working hard as well. But I hope we can improve more than the others to make a step forward.

Q. Last year you fought for the title, this year you are yet to score, what’s your mindset approaching the weekend?

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Ferrari has confirmed that it will continue to use KERS at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, despite the reliability problems it has suffered with the technology so far this season.

The Maranello-based outfit was forced to remove KERS at the Chinese Grand Prix because it could not guarantee it would remain reliable.

And, following KERS problems suffered by Felipe Massa in the last race, there had been some doubts about whether Ferrari would keep the devices on its car for Barcelona.

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Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was in Italy earlier this week to help launch a new report which advocates coordinated UN action on road safety by highlighting the world’s hidden epidemic of road traffic injuries. Massa was joined in Rome by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the Chairman of the Commission for Global Road Safety, and actress Michelle Yeoh, the FIA’s Global Road Safety Ambassador.

The ‘Make Roads Safe’ report, endorsed by the world’s leading road safety experts, recommends that UN governments, who will attend the first-ever global conference on road safety in Moscow in November, support a ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety’ from 2010-2020. During the ‘Decade’ it’s hoped some five million lives could be saved and 50 million serious injuries prevented.

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