Ferrari will not change its target of achieving two victories in 2015 after a disappointing result in Canada, according to team boss Maurizio Arrivabene.
Hopes were high Ferrari could challenge Mercedes for its second win of 2015 in Montreal after using an engine development token but it could only register fourth and fifth, the first race this year which saw neither Sebastian Vettel or Kimi Raikkonen on the podium. After the grand prix Arrivabene explained why circumstances at the grand prix masked the progress made by Ferrari on the engine side and he is refusing to adjust the target he set in the winter.
Asked whether he would re-assess the team's goal after Canada, the Italian replied: "No, no, absolutely no change. If I'm going to change them it's like I'm saying 'I surrend'. No, we don't surrend it. We have to go.
"Going to the podium, if you do it every race, it becomes boring. But if you go down to the podium it becomes worse. So we need to keep the position of the podium and look up, not down, but no I don't change the objective, no way."
Mercedes recorded a dominant one-two in Canada and finished 40 seconds ahead of third-placed Valtteri Bottas. Arrivabene thinks it would be wrong for Ferrari to downplay the advantage Mercedes still has.
"It's a long way to go. We need to have a bit of humility to recognise that at the moment they are stronger than us without thinking 'we have closed the gap so we can beat them every race' - this is not realistic, honestly. The answer that we get during this weekend [Canada] was quite good."