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Montreal - Ferrari go into Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix hoping for the best but fearing the worst after what team boss Jean Todt called their poorest qualifying performance of the season so far.
Finland's Kimi Raikkonen will start fourth on the grid with Brazilian team-mate Felipe Massa one place behind after championship leaders McLaren secured the top two slots on Saturday.
"This was a very disappointing qualifying session for us, the worst of the season as we were no match for our main rivals," said Todt.
"Of course, the points only get given out in the race and tomorrow the key factors will be the usual ones - strategy, reliability, performance and team work, but the overall picture after today is not a favourable one and I hope that changes for the race," he added.
Already five points behind McLaren's joint leaders, double champion Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, Massa tried to keep his hopes up.
"For sure it was not a fantastic qualifying from us," said Massa. "Hopefully we can change some things for tomorrow and hopefully we can have a better result tomorrow in the race, definitely today McLaren was quicker than us.
"We will see the strategy they have and we will try and have a good strategy for tomorrow as well," added the Brazilian, winner of two races this season but still five points off the lead.
Raikkonen, in his first season with Ferrari after joining from McLaren as Michael Schumacher's replacement, is 15 points behind his former squad's current duo. He highlighted the different conditions between qualifying and racing.
"Of course I would have preferred to have been further forward on the starting grid but we know we have a competitive car when running at race pace," he said. "As far as today's result is concerned there is always the unknown factor concerning the fuel levels (in qualifying)," added the Finn.

monster

How can Ferrari lose their form so quickly, as a Ferrari fan i was hoping they qualify with heavier fuel but after reading what Jean Todt said, i have pretty much no hope for a Ferrari win.

450SEL6.9

Even when they had form early in the season, they didn't capitalize on it completely. The loss of Schumacher and Brawn is slowly catching up to them. Mclaren will get 1-2 here and maybe another in the USA. Ferrari will be reeling and, unlike previous years, they won't have Schu to claw back the deficit.

There's no way they have much more fuel than Mclaren. Montreal is not a circuit where you want to go heavy because the increased weight only stresses brakes more. Ferrari will be lucky to have one car on the podium. They don't have much more race pace than Mclaren. If Ferrari is resorting to hoping that they do, then it's pretty bleak. There's equally little hope for a win at US GP.