Brawn: Ferrari Want to Win Every Race

Ferrari said on Saturday that they are aiming to break their 15-race victory record and become the first team in Formula One history to claim a clean-sweep of the Championship this season.

The Italian giants, who claimed 15 wins from 17 races in a dominant 2002 season, jointly hold the record for the highest number of race wins in a season with McLaren, who won 15 of 16 races in 1988.

But Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn admitted the team's desire to go one better than their rivals and said: "We should try and win all 18 races. That's our ambition and I think it should be our ambition.

"I think it would be brave to say that we will - but we don't want to have a weak area anywhere. You saw the races that we were weak at last year and, of course, that's the thing that we've tried to strengthen.

"There are tracks where we don't get to test and we don't know whether we've achieved it until we get there and see how the package works - for instance, we weren't particularly strong at Hockenheim or Hungary last year.

"Those are tracks where we know we've got to try and improve but we don't get to test there so we won't know until we go back. I think we've understood and addressed some of the reasons for the weakness so we should be in better shape.

"It's our ambition to win every race if we can. But you reach a level where you think you've achieved that and you opposition goes a bit better so you realise that the standards have been re-set."

Ferrari surprised their rivals with dominant victories for World Champion Michael Schumacher in the Australian, Malaysian and Bahrain Grands Prix after claims that they would be toppled this season. They currently hold the top two places in the drivers' championship and have dropped just three points from a possible 54 with their closest rivals collecting less than half their total.