Ferrari confident of strong Canadian GP

The Maranello team secured a front row lockout at Monte Carlo, where they had struggled to match their rivals' pace in recent times.

Their form suggested Ferrari are likely to be strong in all sorts of tracks this year, and Domenicali is hoping to confirm that in Montreal, where his team also failed to match McLaren last season.

"It's easy to say but difficult to do it. For sure, in terms of preparation, we are much more confident of the situation ad hopefully it should be different from what we saw last year," said Domenicali.

"We want to be positive for Canada because we take the same kind of approach but we need to be humble because the competition is always very strong.

"As we always said, we mustn't forget that we won four races out of six, and that's something important. As I've always said, the championship will be very very long.

"In these conditions, you're going to lose some points, then the situation that happened with Lewis today means he's leading the championship, so it will be very, very long."

Domenicali is also convinced Felipe Massa would have won the race in Monaco if not for the wrong strategy.

"A hundred per cent (sure), because the performance was very good, just look at the first laps even in bad conditions," he said.

"We take the gamble regarding strategy because we had more rain predicted on the radar and that was the reason why we gave him another set of intermediate tyres because we wanted to be ready for another shower.

"But unfortunately that didn't happen, and with the Hamilton situation, who was able to have this kiss with the guardrail, where it should have been impossible to come back, but because there was this big gap behind him, he was able to come back (in a good position).

"So there were a lot of circumstances that really we could not control. So we need to consider the points that were related to our decisions or our situation and look at the things that were really peculiar to what happened today in Monte Carlo."

Massa had to settle for third place while teammate Kimi Raikkonen finished in ninth after a troubled race.