While Kimi Raikkonen is predicting a difficult weekend for Ferrari at Silverstone, his team-mate Felipe Massa believes the Scuderia should be competitive.
Heading to Britain on the back of a rather disappointing Turkish GP, Raikkonen is hoping for a return to the points or even his second podium finish of the campaign. However, the former World Champ, admits Silverstone doesn't always offer the easiest of races.
"It will be a difficult British GP: a place on the podium would be a great result," he said.
"There's always lots of wind at Silverstone and it often rains, even in the summer. The track conditions are changing extremely quickly so that it's difficult to find the right set up for the car.
"Usually, when you're leading in the Championship, you hope for stable weather conditions, but this year it's different and we try to consider this variable part of the fun of racing in England."
Meanwhile, Massa reckons Ferrari can put in a strong showing this weekend as the Italian marque heads to Britain with a new front wing, a lighter chassis and more awareness of what went wrong at the previous race weekend in Turkey.
"On paper, this weekend's British Grand Prix takes place at a track with some similarities to the last race in Istanbul, where we were not so competitive: this weekend's track also features fast corners, flowing sections and a final slow sector and we will have the same two types of tyre from Bridgestone, but that doesn't mean I think we will struggle as much as we did a fortnight ago," he said.
"For a start, the new components we have on the car this weekend, including a front wing and a lighter chassis, should make us more competitive. But, more importantly, in Turkey we went backwards over the course of the weekend, after being very competitive on Friday and on Saturday morning.
"We now know why that happened, which is the most important thing: we believe that with the very high track temperatures, we ran too low on the downforce and should have run with more rear wing, because as the temperature rises, the grip from the tyres went down and we needed to compensate for that.
"As the temperature gradually got higher, our cars were running slower and slower in the first sector of the track; the one where you need the most downforce. In other words, the problem we had was related to the way we worked, rather than any specific fault on the car.
"So I think we can be more competitive this weekend, with these changes to the car."
