Tombazis: Ferrari should have kept Alonso

If Nikolas Tombazis joined the list of personnel fired by Scuderia Ferrari in 2014, the former engineer of the Italian team believes that the latter should have at least kept Fernando Alonso. The double champion's frustration was increasingly visible in view of the poor results of the structure of Maranello, the Asturian's last success dating back to the 2013 Spanish GP in Barcelona.

“In my romantic view of things, Ferrari would have done well to keep him. And me too ", confessed Nicholas Tombazis au Corriere della Serra. “I regret that they did not have the patience to wait for the results. There was also the modernization of the factory. Pat Fry (former technical director) changed the situation. »

The departure of Fernando Alonso for McLaren disadvantaged the Spaniard who is now struggling to gain points with the Honda Power Unit, while the Ferrari SF15-T already has two successes with the Prancing Horse.

“I worked until the beginning of December, when the (SF15-T) was already in production. I just wonder what they would have said if they had a bad car rather than a good one”, added Nikolas Tombazis.