Ferrari to investigate whether revised Pirelli tyres sent them off course at Hungarian GP

Stefano Domeniciali has admitted Ferrari need to analyse whether the new range of Pirelli tyres has hurt the F138's performance after their fading title hopes took another knock at the Hungarian GP.

However, despite the concerning nature of Sunday's result and the potential for further destabilisation after Alonso was sensationally linked with a shock Red Bull switch for 2014, Domenicali insists the Scuderia have no reason to panic. He believes Alonso's fifth-place on the grid had at least represented a step forward in their long-standing attempts to improve their car's single-lap pace and is confident Ferrari are on course to deliver more pronounced gains when the season resumes in Belgium. "It seems strange but I believe that after two bad races from a performance point of view that we had in Germany and in Silverstone we have improved the car for qualifying, for example, but we haven't for the race," he said. "So we have already done a programme to be ready for Spa and hopefully we are able to manage it because there's no reason to be going to the press to be negative, it doesn't help the people to work. "I'm expecting a reaction from my technical group and this is what I want to see."