Domenicali: Ferrari will not relax

Felipe Massa bounced back from two disappointing races in Australia and Malaysia to clinch victory in Sakhir, leading teammate Kimi Raikkonen home ahead of BMW's Robert Kubica.

It was Ferrari's second consecutive victory following Raikkonen's dominant showing in Sepang.

The result moved Ferrari into second place in the standings, one point behind BMW, and one ahead of McLaren.

But despite their back-to-back victories, Domenicali says the team are still planning to push as hard as always.

"As I've always said, since the beginning, I was expecting a tough championship this year, with BMW that had already shown, during testing, that it was better than last year, for sure," Domenicali told reporters after the race.

"I always said that and that confirms what I always thought since the beginning: that it would be a very long championship, very long. It is a classification than is closer to soccer than an F1 season, and we are three teams covered by two points.

"That shows that we cannot lose an important step because the others can take more important points, so it will be important to keep up the pace of reliability.

"But we don't have to forget that we have to keep on developing our car to the maximum, because the others will not sleep, they will be back again very strong in Spain and I'm expecting McLaren to be back again and up to standard in Barcelona.

"So what we have to do is work very hard and keep the feet on the ground, concentrate and that's the way we used to do: reply on the track."

Raikkonen now leads the drivers' championship, with Massa, who had not scored until today, in sixth place.